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General Motors Job Cuts: Past and Present
This week, General Motors' announced the decision to layoff 14,000 workers in the U.S. and Canada.
Amy Goldstein, Washington Post health policy reporter and author of (now in paperback) Janesville: An American Story (Simon & Schuster, 2017), draws on her in-depth reporting on the impact of the closing of a GM plant in Janesville, WI, to add context to this week's news of more plant closings, and Dustin Walsh, senior reporter at Crain's Detroit Business, joins the interview.