Judd Legum

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3. In 2010, @Siemens began pitching city officials on a solution. The company would install all-new automated water meters and a new billing system. Where would cash-strapped Jackson get the money for such a project? https://t.co/vFmWZXZPqt — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 6, 2022

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@Siemens 2. When schools were integrated in the 1960s, affluent whites began to leave Jackson. Followed by the black middle class The city was left with 114 sq miles of crumbling water infrastructure, a declining population, shrinking tax revenues, and a disinterested state government — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 6, 2022

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4. @Siemens assured city officials that the project would more than pay for itself. Jackson would pay @Siemens $90 million — the largest contract in city history — and the new automated system would generate "$120 million in guaranteed savings" over 15 years — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 6, 2022