Maria Heidkamp

New Start Career Network / Heldrich Center for Workforce Development

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Maria Heidkamp is director of the New Start Career Network and a senior researcher at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development

Maria Heidkamp on KCRW

Nobody believed it would happen, but Janesville, Wisconsin, lost its General Motors plant in the Great Recession, almost 100 years after it opened.

The broken promise to Janesville

Nobody believed it would happen, but Janesville, Wisconsin, lost its General Motors plant in the Great Recession, almost 100 years after it opened.

from To the Point

Nobody believed it would happen, but Janesville, Wisconsin, lost its General Motors plant in the Great Recession, almost 100 years after it opened.

The broken promise to Janesville

Nobody believed it would happen, but Janesville, Wisconsin, lost its General Motors plant in the Great Recession, almost 100 years after it opened.

from To the Point

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