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The broken promise to Janesville.

Hello again, I'm Aronaldi, and this is To the Point.

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

When suppliers and ancillary businesses also shut down a classic American middle-class

lifestyle for 65,000 people went out of existence.

We'll talk to the author of an intimate account of suddenly unemployed workers and their families,

how they're reacted, and what they've done since.

Janesville wants a model of civic unity and cooperation between labor and business, big and small,

is now a divided city.

On today's talking point, round one of the presidential election has already reshaped France.

We'll hit about round two.

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Hello again, Warren. I'll be back with To the Point.

Janesville, Wisconsin is the hometown of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, but he couldn't prevent the closing of the General Motors factory after almost 100 years.

We'll hear what's happened to what once was a model

of American middle class unity. On today's talking point, France may never be the same after round

one of the presidential election this weekend. Traditional parties were outvoted, leaving candidates

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