Entire article too long to fully quote so just excerpting the relevant parts.
The shameful legacy of Big Blue's abandonment of hard-working American families in favor of off-shoring to 3rd-world s-holes is perfectly encapsulated here.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/earning-more-worse-shape-poverty-overwhelms-families-eab13800
By: Dan Frosch
Aug. 4, 2025 9:00 pm ET
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Situated about 70 miles south of Syracuse, with a population of roughly 196,000, Broome County has had high child poverty rates over the past decade. It wasn’t always this way.
IBM was born here, when three of the earliest information processing companies merged in 1911 and established headquarters in the village of Endicott amid neighborhoods of Italian immigrants who worked in a local shoe factory.
With a sprawling campus near the Susquehanna River, IBM provided generations with manufacturing jobs and financial stability. The company’s presence in Broome County began waning in the 1990s, as it moved production elsewhere and laid off workers. The company sold its campus in 2002, while continuing to lease some of the buildings. That ended in 2023, and demolition of the company’s gray, hulking office buildings in Endicott—long vacant—began on Dec. 31.
“IBM’s closing threw the local economy into a depression,” said Komla Dzigbede, who chairs the Public Administration and Policy department at Binghamton University, part of the New York state school system. “In many ways, it has never fully recovered.”
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