Report: Carrier will keep just 850 US jobs, get $700,000 a year in tax breaks [View all]

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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-pence-carrier-deal-65e6bee054c9#.5gg8d4nmb

More than half the jobs will still leave the country, all while taxpayers hand Carrier a package of financial incentives.

After railing against air conditioning and heating manufacturer Carrier on the campaign trail for its announced plan to move production to Mexico — and therefore about 2,000 U.S. jobs — President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence will announce on Thursday that they have struck a deal to keep about 1,000 of those jobs in Indiana.

But while Trump is already bragging about the deal, the details expose it as a raw one for a lot of Americans.

Fortune reports that the actual sum is even smaller. The company has pledged to keep 850 jobs in the U.S. that would otherwise have gone to Mexico, while also retaining some headquarters and engineering jobs that would have moved to Charlotte, North Carolina.

Since the company had originally put more than 2,000 at risk — 1,400 at the Indianapolis plant and 700 at the Huntington plant owned by Carrier’s parent company, United Technologies — the difference between those numbers mean that at least some production will move south of the border and more than half of the jobs will go with it. Fortune reports that 1,300 jobs will go to Mexico: 600 from the Indianapolis plant and the 700 in Huntington.

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