AT&T promised 7,000 new jobs to get tax break—it cut 23,000 jobs instead

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In 2017, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson campaigned for Trump's massive tax-cuts by promising that they would create 7,000 jobs with the $3,000,000,000 they stood to gain,
"every billion dollars AT&T invests is 7,000 hard-hat jobs. These are not entry-level jobs. These are 7,000 jobs of people putting fiber in ground, hard-hat jobs that make $70,000 to $80,000 per year."
Stephenson also said that AT&T would invest in new infrastructure. But something happened on the way to the trickledown boon for workers. Instead of creating new jobs or investing in infrastructure, AT&T reduced its headcount by 23,328 workers while reducing capital expenditures by $1.4B Don't worry though, AT&T substantially increased executive bonuses over the same period. Via Boing Boing

Trump 2020 Campaign Begins With Brazen Hostility to Laws, Democratic Institutions, Propriety

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Trump has dispatched Giuliani to Ukraine to push the incoming government in Kiev to press ahead with investigations that he hopes will benefit Trump 2020 and hurt Joe Biden. We know this because Giuliani brazenly said that his trip to Ukraine intended to push the incoming government in Kiev to press ahead with investigations that he hopes will benefit Trump 2020 and hurt Joe Biden.