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Is COVID crisis entirely to blame for latest Boeing cuts?

Jul 30, 2020, 2:51 PM | Updated: Oct 7, 2024, 8:49 am

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A worker leaves the Boeing 737 factory in Renton in December. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)

(Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)

Transportation reporter Chris Sullivan joins the show to explain what’s going on inside Boeing with newly announced job and production cuts. Is the coronavirus entirely to blame?

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