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President Donald Trump says Upstate New York residents should leave the Empire State to find jobs elsewhere.
The Chicago Tribune reports electronics manufacturer Foxconn is expected to announce Wednesday that a new factory will be built in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says as many as 10,000 new jobs will be created by the plant, which will make flat-screen displays in House Speaker Paul Ryan's congressional district.
Trump teased the announcement as a win for his campaign promise to bring back manufacturing jobs in the U.S. during an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. He specifically called out "upper New York state," encouraging residents to leave their homes behind for places like Wisconsin, a key state in Trump's election victory.
"You're going to need people to work in these massive plants," Trump told the newspaper. "I'm going to start explaining to people: When you have an area that just isn't working like upper New York state, where people are getting very badly hurt, and then you'll have another area 500 miles away where you can't get people, I'm going to explain, you can leave. It's OK. Don't worry about your house."
Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente Jr. responded on Twitter Wednesday, saying he was "Disappointed in @realDonaldTrump a president from New York bashing Upstate New York. Sad. I had hoped for better."
In the same WSJ interview, Trump claimed Apple CEO Tim Cook promised to build three "big, big, big" new factories in the U.S. The tech giant has not commented, but Apple closed its last American factory in 2004 and doesn't build manufacturing plants anymore; the company uses several U.S. companies to manufacture hardware parts, while iPhones are assembled in China.
It's unclear whether Trump meant factories built by Apple suppliers, like Foxconn.
According to the Times-Union, New York state may have been trying to win the project for a state-owned site in Utica. A spokesman for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development czar, Howard Zemsky, did not respond to the newspaper's request for comment.
It's unclear whether other Apple suppliers may be considering Utica or other sites for factories in the Empire State.
Cook previously said in May that Apple would invest $1 billion into a fund to promote advanced manufacturing in the United States. Corning Inc., which makes Gorilla Glass for iPhone and iPad screens, was the first company to receive funding with $200 million.
Corning, based in Western New York, said last week it would "immediately" invest $500 million and create 1,000 new jobs in the U.S. related to medical devices -- not smartphones or tablets.
Trump campaigned on keeping jobs from heading to Mexico and other countries, including promising to save as many as 1,400 jobs at Carrier Corp. through tax incentives. Carrier, formerly headquartered in Syracuse, announced 632 layoffs in May at plants in Indianapolis and Huntington, Indiana.
The president previously called Upstate New York a "ghost town" during a 2016 campaign rally while talking about his opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, blaming the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), signed by President Bill Clinton, for costing American jobs at places like Carrier. During a presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, he also called the region a "disaster" and blamed the former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State for "failing" to "bring back jobs to upstate New York."
Trump, who repeatedly boasted about his popularity in Upstate New York, easily won the region by more than 100,000 votes in November's election -- winning all but a handful of counties. However, a Siena College poll in May found his approval rating had dropped and was viewed favorably by only 33 percent of Upstate voters, with 63 percent holding an unfavorable view of the president.
http://www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2017/07/trump_leave_upstate_ny_jobs.html#incart_river_index
FYI, I run a 6-figure business in rural upstate NY doing business in the US, Canada, St. Martens, the UK, France, Germany, UAE, Turkey, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Japan.
We're not exactly dying here.
Buffalo has beautifully redone the waterfront and is growing. Syracuse has regrown entire neighborhoods. Albany and Ithaca are rapidly expanding.
For decades, Upstate New York lost population, true. Many young people left, which isn’t unusual, but few moved in. And that hurt. This multi-decade net loss of young population robbed us of skills, entrepreneurs, consumers and people who, you know, reproduce. Without population growth, it's harder to achieve economic growth.
But Upstate’s young population is now rising. And by every measure – jobs, wages, housing, GDP, investment, unemployment, population, and so on – Upstate New York is doing remarkably well relative to how it was doing.
The Upstate economy is adding jobs, including 80 consecutive months with private sector growth – the longest on record since 1990; and from 2011 to present, that job growth clocked in at nearly 6 percent, compared with a 3 percent decrease from 2001 – 2011. Plus, nearly 40 percent of Upstate’s private sector jobs in 2016 were well-paying. Today, instead of disparate development strategies we have robust regional plans driving and achieving sustainable economic growth.
Fuck off Trump.
All he can do is take credit for things he didn't do, and walk away from things that he can't take credit for.
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