A U.S. subsidiary of a South Korean company plans to open a manufacturing facility in Fort Worth and create 800 jobs making nitrile rubber gloves, which.
Fort Worth Weekly
Forever Changed
Nonviolent protests, a deadly pandemic, and divisive elections shook Fort Worth in 2020, and there’s no going back to business as usual.
By Edward Brown
Photo by Jason Brimmer.
Behind Dickies Arena, and largely hidden from passersby, several lines of cars crept toward dozens of volunteers who were stocking trunks with frozen turkeys, orange juice, and other foodstuffs as part of a mobile pantry by the Tarrant Area Food Bank (TAFB).
“Most of these folks, around 40%, are brand-new to our services,” said Julie Butner, president and CEO of the TAFB. “These are folks who held two or three jobs and lost one. These are working families, but they don’t have enough money to meet their food needs.”