

Chinese manufacturing meets Small Town, USA
The Trump administration is pushing to bring manufacturing back to America. But what happens when one multinational company actually tries to set up shop in Small Town, USA? Today we bring you the Planet Money story of how a battery factory ignited a political firestorm over what kind of factories we actually want in…
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