Saturday, December 3, 2016

Trump May Have Gotten Carrier To Keep 1,000 Jobs, But Manufacturing Jobs Aren't Coming Back

The announcement that President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence helped persuade Carrier to keep 1,000 factory jobs in the U.S. is a pretty big win. After all, they ran on a message of protecting The American Worker, and Trump isn't even in the White House yet. Details about the deal dripped out Thursday morning.

United Technologies Corp. (parent company to Carrier) will get $7 million in tax breaks over 10 years, the Wall Street Journal reports, but the Indiana Business Journal adds that the company was also scared of losing federal contracts....
http://www.npr.org/2016/12/01/503987418/carrier-will-keep-1-000-jobs-but-trump-faces-a-much-tougher-jobs-problem?ft=nprml&f=1001


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