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Changes
Under Foxconnâs original contract, signed in late 2017 by Walker, the company was slated to receive as much as $2.85 billion in state credits over 15 years â along with $150 million in sales tax breaks â if the company hired at least 13,000 employees and made a $10 billion capital investment in the state. Other state and local incentives bring the total to $4 billion.
Former President Donald Trump, who attended the facilityâs 2018 groundbreaking ceremony, described the Foxconn project as the âeighth wonder of the world.â
However, the Mount Pleasant project was later downsized to Generation 6, which would manufacture small screens for mobile phones, tablets, notebooks and wearable devices.
MITCHELL SCHMIDT
Lee Newspapers
MADISON â Foxconn Technology Group would receive $2.77 billion fewer in state tax dollars and only aims to employ about 11% as many people in Wisconsin compared to its original goal, according to a new agreement between the state and the Taiwan-based company for its downsized manufacturing facility in Mount Pleasant.
The new contract, which was passed by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.âs board of directors on Tuesday, would provide Foxconn with $80 million in performance-based incentives as long as the company hires 1,454 employees across Wisconsin (not solely in Racine County) with an average wage of $53,875 and makes a capital investment of at least $672 million by 2026. It also represents a significant decrease from the $2.85 billion in state tax credits originally pledged to the company in its 2018 contract with the state.
William Cherkasky didn’t think Earth Day would catch on in 1968 as he and other progressives discussed political strategies on a fishing boat off the coast of Miami.
The former Appleton resident and World War II veteran was chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin at the time, and they were trying to figure out a way to highlight environmental issues in a way similar to the Vietnam War teach-ins that were taking place at universities across the country.
“We all went down to Miami to take a rest, go fishing, drink a bottle of beer every now and then and eat takeout chicken in our hotel rooms,” Cherkasky said. “We started talking about the environment, and we all realized that could become a good issue.”
By Dan O Donnell
Apr 13, 2021
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin sent an email Monday urging supporters to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which provided bail for a man charged with sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl. This weekend saw another disturbing act of violence on a Black man in our sister state of Minnesota with a police officer killing Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, wrote Democratic Party of Wisconsin Executive Director Nellie Sires. Black Lives Matter, and we all need to be striving to make ourselves actively anti-racist. Simply being non racist is not enough anymore. That’s why I want to direct your attention to an organization called the Minnesota Freedom Fund a fantastic nonprofit that operates to pay the bail and immigration bonds for those who cannot afford them, because our criminal justice system should never criminalize poverty or put a price on freedom.