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Hold the shovels on that Chinese pulp mill

Don't buy shovels for a groundbreaking for the Chinese pulp mill announced in 2016 for Clark County. The trade war is a problem.
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Speaking of corporate welfare: Remember that Chinese pulp mill?

Corporate welfare has burst into this news this week with Kimberly-Clark holding Wisconsin and Arkansas hostage for sufficient taxpayer tribute to keep a plant open in one of the states and with enormous handouts to Amazon to locate new facilities in New York and Virginia. This naturally brought to mind the promised Chinese pulp mill announced almost three years ago for Clark County.
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Where's the Chinese money promised in Arkansas?

The record indicates more than Trump's trade war might have influenced slowdowns in announced Chinese investments in Arkansas.

About that Arkansas economic miracle: Statistics and tariffs

The latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show Arkansas added 6,500 jobs, or a .5 percent growth in workforce. That puts us in the bottom five states in percentage job growth.
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The cost of corporate welfare, Trump-Foxconn edition

Donald Trump bragged that a Chinese company's decision to put a flat-screen TV plant in Wisconsin was a deal he swung. Some deal.

Welspun layoffs: Another example of corporate welfare folly

Layoffs at the Welspun pipe plant in Little Rock are a reminder of the folly of corporate welfare and the inability of Arkansas to separate itself from global economic forces. See the Fayetteville shale. And keep a watchful eye on that Sun Paper pulp mill proposed near Arkadelphia.
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