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Mr. Toyota

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A news report you won't be reading in the U.S. press--


The factory will cost $800 million to build, with the federal and provincial governments kicking in $125 million of that to help cover research, training and infrastructure costs.

Several U.S. states were reportedly prepared to offer more than double that amount of subsidy. But Fedchun said much of that extra money would have been eaten away by higher training costs than are necessary for the Woodstock project.

He said Nissan and Honda have encountered difficulties getting new plants up to full production in recent years in Mississippi and Alabama due to an untrained - and often illiterate - workforce. In Alabama, trainers had to use "pictorials" to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech plant equipment.

"The educational level and the skill level of the people down there is so much lower than it is in Ontario," Fedchun said.


The entire article is in the CBC News

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Sideline

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I am sure this is Shelby Thames' fault.

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Angeline

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This article is getting wide play on media throughout North America.  Bringing it down to a nutshell, I think this proves that an educated workforce and government-provided healthcare beats "throw more money at the corporations" economic development when companies think long term.  But in this state . . . we are throwing people off of medicaid, cutting education, raising tuition, and complaining about rising health insurance rates (while doing nothing about them).  No wonder Toyota chose Canada. 

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