One Job's Journey by Kate Linthicum

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: One Job’s Journey
Writer: Kate Linthicum
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Questions

1. Where does Chris Wade live?
2. How old is Chris Wade?
3. What is Delphi Automotive?
4. Where does Berta Alicia Lopez live?
5. How old is Berta Alicia Lopez?
6. Where did Delphi Automotive go after they left Ohio?
7. What is Berta’s job at Delphi Automotive?
8. Berta does the same job that Wade once did in Ohio.  The difference is that Berta earns $1 an hour and Wade earned $30 an hour.  What does this mean to you?
9. In the U.S., Wade’s job helped him buy a house, pay for health insurance and send children to college.  Does the same job help Berta buy a house, pay for health insurance and send children to college?
10. What conclusion can be drawn about President Trump’s comment, “Don’t leave us, because there are going to be consequences”?  (Target 1, Target 8)
11. What did the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) eliminate?
12. When did the North American Free Trade Agreement begin?
13. What is the cause that the Rust Belt replaced middle class factory positions with lower-paying service industry jobs?
14. How many manufacturing jobs were in the U.S. in 2000?
15. How many manufacturing jobs were in the U.S. in 2010?
16. Who is an economist and trade expert at UC San Diego?
17. Why does Mexico remain attractive to manufacturers?
18. What is President Trump proposing on countries like Mexico who the U.S. has a trade deficit?
19. How much of Mexico’s export goes to the U.S.?
20. What did Mexico’s President, Enrique Peña Nieto, say in a current speech on President Trump’s trade issues?
21. What was Delphi Automotive called in 1890?
22. What was Delphi Automotive making in 1890?
23. When did Delphi Automotive become a division of General Motors?
24. Where did Berta grow up?
25. In which grade was Berta pulled out of school?
26. Why did NAFTA make things hard on small Mexican farmers?
27. Why did migration to cities like Juarez also marked a cultural shift?
28. What are maquiladoras?
29. When did Delphi Automotive file for bankruptcy?
30. How many of the 29 American plants  did Delphi Automotive plan to close?
31. In how many cities Delphi Automotive have workers today?
32. What is Delphi Automotive’s workforce?
33. Who was Delphi Automotive’s CEO?
34. Who decided not to build a new $1.6 billion factory in Mexico?
35. What did Delphi’a CEO say would happen if President Trump were to close the border with Mexico?
36. What is the main idea of this article? (Target 2 and Target 9)
37. What inference can be made about the writer’s messages bout U.S. jobs moving to Mexico?

Reference
http://www.latimes.com/la-bio-kate-linthicum-staff.html