"When Wisconsin governor Scott Walker stood shoulder to shoulder with President Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan at the White House in July 2017, they painted a glorious picture of his state's future. Foxconn, the enormous China-based electronics firm, was promising to bring TV manufacturing back to the United States with a $10 billion investment and 13,000 well-paying jobs. Two years later, the project was in shambles. Land had been seized, homes had been destroyed, and hundreds of millions of municipal dollars had been committed for just a few hundred jobs--nowhere near enough for Foxconn to earn the incentives Walker had shoveled at them. In foxconned, journalist Lawrence Tabak details the full story of this utter collapse, which was disturbingly inevitable. He reveals how the economic incentive infrastructure across the country is broken, leading to waste, cronyism, and the steady transfer of tax revenue to corporations. With compassion and care, he also reports the distressing stories of the many individuals whose lives were upended by Foxconn."--Dust jacket.
