Alabama economic recovery begins with the exodus of textile companies
LINCOLN, Ala. - This city of 4000 is slowly filling.
The roads are wider, property is becoming hotter and portfolio are increasingly thick. The welfare rolls in the city with two sliding doors, traction before, during September 1500 audience and jobs.
Nearly halfway between Atlanta and Birmingham, Lincoln once fed its economy in the southern staple cotton, poultry and logging.
Today the town so fat by building cars, industry, other posts in the rural deep South feasted during the last ten years.
Two years ago, Honda announced that he would make a production facility in this town of 4000 The company is to open a 1.7 million square feet of plant and begin production of its Odyssey minivan popular at the end of this year.
In a field usual, the minimum wage, an assembly line of Honda workers are starting to $ 13.30 per hour there is progress in two years to more than $ 20 per hour.
Nearly 18,000 people have jobs. Alabama residents, for almost all of 1300 posts of production.
“It was important for us, part of Alabama, and not just a company in Alabama,” said Andy Ritter, Senior Manager for Honda in Lincoln.
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