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FOXCONN DEAL WITH WISCONSIN LOWERS TAX BREAKS TO $80 MILLION

Foxconn Technology Group will be eligible for just $80 million in taxpayer subsidies under a new contract signed this week, down from nearly $3 billion it could have received under the original deal that envisioned a much larger project in southeastern Wisconsin.

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who ran in 2018 as a critic of the deal that his Republican predecessor struck with the world’s largest electronics manufacturer,

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