As Foxconn changes Wisconsin plans, job promises fall short


As Foxconn changes Wisconsin plans, job promises fall short


It’s been 18 months since the Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn Technology Group announced to great fanfare that it was building a $10 billion factory to make TV screens on farmland in southeastern Wisconsin.

The plan was as big as it was audacious: Fueled with billions in taxpayers subsidies, Foxconn would build a 22 million-square-foot campus, filled with 13,000 highly paid workers. In the process, it would transform the sleepy village of Mount Pleasant, Wis., into a high-tech international manufacturing hub...

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Ken Notes: Chicago is saying the grapes were sour and no doubt we are looking at a different kind of growth, but what if we become the world hub for medical imaging, automated manufacturing, and industrial video display. Hell the wine could be perfect!

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