JD Vance backed establishment of AppHarvest as a promising new start up that was hoped to make a difference in the world -- promting agricultural advancements and providing a Kentucky community with jobs. The company is gone, now. And workers say they were ill treated and then forgotten. (AP Photo/Jae C.
JD Vance backed establishment of AppHarvest as a promising new start up that was hoped to revolutionize agriculture while providing a Kentucky community with jobs. The company went bankrupt, though, and workers complain they were ill treated and then forgotten. While a venture capitalist, JD Vance touted his guiding principles: A business should not just make a profit, it also should help the community.
AppHarvest’s failure, and Vance’s role in it, cuts against the image of the Ohio senator as a champion for the working class — an image that helped catapult him onto the Republican ticket as Donald Trump’s running mate.reviewed public records surrounding AppHarvest and interviewed former employees concluded that the company didn’t just fail financially after pursuing rapid growth. It also failed the working-class Kentuckians who Vance had vowed to help. They described a grim job experience.
By the time Vance took office in 2023, the company was mired in lawsuits filed by shareholders angry over its plummeting stock price and allegations of fraud. “Eastern Kentucky is well-known for people coming and going. They start up companies, then they disappear,” said former AppHarvest worker Anthony Morgan. “They didn’t care about us.”
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