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A pretty good article. Praise for Trump, yet if you read on, it points out the role of Pense and raises some questions..
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/30/politics/donald-trump-carrier-jobs-analysis/index.htmlWashington (CNN)Donald Trump staked his credibility as a negotiator -- the underpinning of his grand entrance to politics -- on a very specific claim.
He wouldn't just stop the trend of globalization and outsourcing. He'd convince Carrier -- an Indianapolis-based air-conditioning manufacturer -- to abandon its plans to eliminate more than 2,000 Hoosier jobs and shift its production to Mexico.
Well before even taking office, he's delivered -- Tuesday night the company announced it would keep about 1,000 of those jobs in Indiana.
And he's shed light on how he might use the levers of government to pressure companies that plan to ship jobs overseas in the future, too.
It was well-timed victory for Trump, who also rolled out his economic team, tapping Steven Mnuchin for treasury secretary and billionaire Wilbur Ross to head the Department of Commerce.
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Both Mnuchin and Ross come with public relations warts -- including Mnuchin's time as a Goldman Sachs partner and hedge fund manager and Ross' "king of bankruptcy" nickname. But in securing a deal with Carrier, Trump is lending credibility to his claims that he'd put people he'd called "killers" -- meant as a compliment -- to help American workers.
The details of the Carrier deal remain obscure. Trump's campaign has deflected questions on exactly how the company was convinced to stay in Indiana -- pointing reporters to the company and its much larger parent, United Technologies. The fate of Carrier's plant in Huntington, Indiana, which employed 700, is also unclear.