The laid-off mayor told Pelley he still doesn't have a new job. I was one of the ones at Windstream that was affected in the first round." "It was 60, and then it was 146 the next time," Mayor Allen explained.Īsked how that affected people around Newton, Allen said, "You know it's a rollercoaster. This fall, a telecom company called Windstream had two layoffs. But every time he gets a few hundred jobs, he seems to lose a few hundred. He made a run at green energy, and got a company that makes wind turbine blades. The mayor has been trying to pull new jobs into town. "It is available, it is available, we'll make you a good deal," he told Pelley. If anyone out there is interested, the mayor has more than 1.7 million square feet to rent.
Allen walked "60 Minutes" and Pelley through an abandoned Maytag plant that, at its peak, held 2,500 factory workers building washers and dryers. "I wanna tell everybody that we're a company town where the company left, but we're gonna thrive," Chaz Allen told Pelley.Īllen is the mayor of this town of 15,000 people it's a part time job that pays about $4,000 a year. Even the local chapter of the Optimists Club has closed. Since the recession, we've seen a lot of troubled towns in the country but nothing that looks quite as broken as Newton.
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