Posted on 10/09/2022 9:57:53 AM PDT by dynachrome
Tyson Foods Inc. became the latest large company to announce its departure from Chicago, continuing a trend in the city that many have argued is the result of the city's skyrocketing rates of crime and threatens to do harm to its most vulnerable populations.
"You're talking about a situation where you have a hollowed out economy, where you have businesses leaving, there are no jobs," Heritage Foundation senior research fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy Robert Moffit told Fox News Digital last month. "And the people who are desperately hurt by this are mostly low income and black and minority residents who suffer the most from this high crime."
Moffit's comments came after McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski took aim at Chicago in a mid-September speech, arguing that the city's rising crime rates have made it increasingly difficult for companies to operate or find employees.
"We have violent crime that's happening in our restaurants ... we're seeing homelessness issues in our restaurants. We're having drug overdoses that are happening in our restaurants,"" Kempczinski said at the time. "So we see in our restaurants, every single day, what's happening in society at large."
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Being west of the train stations means the office is closer to residential areas instead of headed into the downtown office and shopping areas.
If your lease is running out, and you have a number of employees already working from home because of COVID lockdowns, it probably makes more sense to move the jobs to a state that does not have mask mandates, very large failing school systems, and many of the other cultural advantages that a place like Chicago can offer.
Rhetorical question. Even Lightfoot knows the answer but does not dare say it.
Sorry to learn this.
Oblast of Washington.
Where will all those taxpayers be working. When major flagship corporations move out, the businesses that support them and their workers begin falling away.
Look at Baltimore, Detroit and Philadelphia. It’s about time Lori Lightfoot explain why Chicago should be any different given her policies.
Just wait until the gangs figure out how profitable kidnapping can be. They are basically there now considering all the carjackings going on. If they begin targeting the uber-wealthy maybe things will change for the better.
Self-preservation is not racist.
It is in our DNA.
Get a clue.
That’s ok
The blacks who lose their jobs at Tyson can just go work in the TV commercial industry
Whites need not apply
If you are so smart, then how come you don’t vacation in Upper Volta and Gabon? The way that I do?
We are ALL those taxpayers no mater where we happen to be. The Feds will bail them out with Fed dollars. And it will cost us all. Lok at Ca, they are the first and foremost receiver of general fund Fed tax dollars.
It shivers me when someone says “Well fine, then Ca voters get what they deserve”. They don’t understand that WE ALL PAY FOR THEIR CRAP.
coastal Washington state: “We have met the Commies, and they are us”
Point taken.
Well at least you understand it for what it really is. Most do not.
Thank you, I wish more did.
The Covid-(federal money)spigots are still open for the major cities and Blue states. That much is undeniable.
I’m not sure if ANY SANE BUSINESS is in ChiCongo. Tyson Foods and sane is an oxymoron.
I call it Detoilet.
Sell it to the Chinese.
Probably that lunatic mayor of Chicago. That freak could scare anyone away.
I stopped buying Tyson in 1992, when I learned of the Clinton-Tyson-Mena connection. Haven't bought it since, never will.
I don't think anyone should have to live in an ISIS society or in Iran. Some government's cruelty to their citizens is just too horrific to be justified.
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