American Futures: Manufacturing Returns to Columbus, Mississippi
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- How does a small town that loses its main industry recover and move forward?
Columbus, Mississippi-with a population hovering around 23,000-has long been a manufacturing hub. But in the early ‘00s, many factories closed down and moved overseas in search of cheaper labor, leaving thousands of Columbus residents depressed and unemployed.
More recently, a new wave of factories has moved into town. In just five years, the region has received almost $12 billion in investments, and Columbus is reinventing itself as the new heart of American manufacturing. Such economic turnaround is “something just doesn’t typically happen in places this small and this rural in the South,” says Joe Max-Higgins, the CEO of a local economic development organization.
This documentary was produced for American Futures, an ongoing reporting project from Atlantic national correspondent James Fallows and contributing writer Deborah Fallows. The couple has spent three years exploring small town America by air, “taking seriously places that don’t usually get registered seriously.”
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As someone from Columbus, I am extremely thankful for these businesses and the LINK. The town has been transforming quickly.
This is such a refreshing news,after the US has suffered such a depressing downturn in it's economy,I hope to see more of this all over the states.
Thank you for posting and greetings from Germany!
Aww! You guys makes me so home sick in Kansas...Columbus is a beautiful town...So true....my brother works at the steel place...GREAT State...Thanks 4 all you do..God bless y'alls hearts❤....great area with lots of potential....It can be done...I believe the Lord will make away...thanks so much...
Please send this to the media AND REPORT TO US THEIR ANSWER!
Our "elite" promoted tax and regulatory policy that made it important for companies to look overseas and we lost more than 70,000 factories and all the high paying jobs and support positions that accompanied them.
After destroying the cities, the "elite" say, "Move to the jobs!"...never admitting that the jobs are in China, S. Korea, Indonesia and south of our own border.
They then blame the people who didn't move to China for not relocating to non-existant jobs in the U.S.
Obama: "Those jobs aren't coming back!"
Perhaps "Those" jobs, but the main reason we don't get the new factories is because of the taxes and regulatory impediments.
That's now changing because we hired Trump.
This video was posted during the Obama Administration.
Do what the Chinese successfully do , if you want to sell to America , force them to make in America , if China has a tariff on something apply the same back , government should approach store owners like Walmart and ask them what are you doing to reverse your destructive ways of buying overseas , pick one product from Walmart which they sell a million a year and put it out to tender and say best price they get an exclusive contract , so as to maximize volume cost savings with volume production , Western government politicians are bone lazy and get away with having a gravy train job and do nothing for the people they represent in return .
What ? Making wooden sling shots for rabbit hunting?