New York City Offered Amazon More Than $1.5 Billion In Incentives For HQ2

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New York And Virginia Offered Amazon More Than $2 Billion In Incentives For HQ2

 

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Another chance we missed.

Virginia got a reasonable deal. Works out to about $20k for each job. But I have no idea what NY was thinking - $1.5 billion for 25k jobs is insane.

That’s only $25 million in Georgia

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