{"id":4394,"date":"2021-02-07T14:35:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T14:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2021-02-07T14:35:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T14:35:43","slug":"the-foxconn-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4394","title":{"rendered":"The Foxconn Con"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;Two years after Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn broke ground in Wisconsin, the massive LCD factory and accompanying tech campus the company promised to build in exchange for $3 billion in state subsidies does not exist and &#8220;probably never will,&#8221;\u00a0<em>The Verge<\/em>\u00a0reported in October. The company&#8217;s Wisconsin outpost was supposed to create 13,000 jobs; as of this year it employed no more than 281 people.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/12\/28\/the-foxconn-con\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/12\/28\/the-foxconn-con\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Two years after Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn broke ground in Wisconsin, the massive LCD factory and accompanying tech campus the company promised to build in exchange for $3 billion in state subsidies does not exist and &#8220;probably never will,&#8221; The Verge reported in October. The company&#8217;s Wisconsin outpost was supposed to create 13,000 jobs; as of this year it employed no more than 281 people.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[993,238,291],"class_list":["post-4394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corporations","tag-subsidies","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4395,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions\/4395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}