UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Foxconn founder and chair Terry Gou announced the partnership in Madison today. The UW is setting a fundraising goal of raising an additional 100 million dollars to match Foxconn’s gift. Blank says this is one of the biggest donations in the campus’ history. “This is an historic moment, not only […]
Foxconn a Tale of Two Narratives
President Trump was in Racine County last Thursday to attend the ground breaking ceremony of the new FoxConn factory. Officials say the factory will produce liquid crystal display screens and provide jobs for 13,000 people. The Taiwanese company was lured by Governor Walker’s a record breaking tax breaks totalling 4 Billion dollars in taxpayer money. […]
Donald Trump to Speak at Foxconn Groundbreaking
The president is speaking in Wisconsin tomorrow. Donald Trump will give remarks ahead of Foxconn’s official groundbreaking at the Mount Pleasant site of their planned LCD display screen manufacturing campus. Wisconsin agreed to a $3 billion incentives package to lure the Taiwanese tech giant to the state. They say they’ll bring around 13 thousand new […]
Split Show: Trade War with China, and the Latest on Foxconn
It’s a split show for Friday host Esty Dinur. First: How’s our economic relationship with China? What does a trade war mean in practical terms? Our guest is David Kotz, Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Then: A new legal action was filed against Foxconn last week for its alleged violation of the […]
Some Mt. Pleasant Homeowners Holding Out Amid Foxconn Plans
Kim Mahoney’s spent last year perfecting and building her home in Mount Pleasant, a village in rural Racine County. But now her house sits on what’s set to be the site of a new, 10 billion dollar LCD display factory. She’s one of the last holdouts in a village attempt to buy the private land […]
Walker Admin. Skirts Great Lakes Compact for Foxconn
On April 25, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources approved the City of Racine’s request to withdraw 7.5 million gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan to serve the proposed Racine County Foxconn LCD plant, which sits just outside the Lake Michigan watershed. In theory, under the Great Lakes Compact, diverting water out of […]
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