In an exclusive interview with CNBC yesterday, Gov. Tony Evers said Foxconn is expected to begin production at its new factory next year with fewer workers than initially promised.
and to Wisconsin on May 1 and 2 to smooth things over. Gou has since stepped down from the company to run for president of Taiwan in the January 2020 election.
His administration has hired a consultant with industry expertise to monitor the project and is in "constant conversation" with the company, Evers said. "The contract works. They didn't create the jobs. It's a performance-based contract. They don't get the tax credits. They understand that," Hogan told CNBC.But that does not address the taxpayer money that already has been spent on the project or the upheaval it has created on what was thousands of acres of rolling farmland 30 miles south of Milwaukee.
Kim and Jim Mahoney's house in the shadow of Foxconn's factory site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, is the last one standing in what used to be a neighborhood of about a dozen homes."They low-balled their appraisal and made us an offer based on that," Kim Mahoney told CNBC. "We spent 10 years planning to build this house in this beautiful location, and we shouldn't have to settle for less.
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