According to the New Yorker, Wisconsin won’t see Foxconn’s first U.S. manufacturing facility and the prospect of significant prosperity that stirred the hopes of a region still with dreams of clawing back the middle-class factory jobs from the middle of the twentieth century.
Questions:
1. How long ago was the deal signed?
2. What were the headline grabbing numbers associated with the Foxconn deal?
3. What are the irreversible parts of the deal?
Source:
Lach, E. (2019). Wisconsin’s Foxconn Debacle Keeps Getting Worse. The New Yorker, Jan. 30 (Retrievable online at https://www.newyorker.com/news/current/wisconsins-foxconn-debacle-keeps-getting-worse)