Some links related to President Donald Trump.
Call him a kleptocrat, an oligarch, a xenophobe, a racist, even an authoritarian. But he doesn't quite fit the definition of a fascist.
Through the first three years of the Trump administration the county
lost jobs, and brought in slightly less in wages in the first three months
of 2020 than in the first three months of 2017 as Trump was taking over.
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Across the industrial belt from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, private job
growth from the first three months of 2017 through the first three months
of 2020 lagged the rest of the country - with employment in Michigan,
Wisconsin and Ohio growing 2% or less over that time compared to a 4.5%
national average, according to QCEW data analyzed by Reuters.
Behind Foxconn's empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin.
The renovations never arrived. Neither did the factory, the tech campus, nor the thousands of jobs. Interviews with 19 employees and dozens of others involved with the project, as well as thousands of pages of public documents, reveal a project that has defaulted on almost every promise. The building Foxconn calls an LCD factory - about 1/20th the size of the original plan - is little more than an empty shell. In September, Foxconn received a permit to change its intended use from manufacturing to storage.