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  • Cortez Celebrated Amazon Pulling Out of NY––But the Governor Says It Cost the City 25,000 Jobs

    02/18/2019 9:55:21 AM PST · by ETL · 70 replies
    Time Magazine, via Yahoo News ^ | February 17, 2019 | Billy Perrigo - Time Magazine
    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared victory when Amazon announced Thursday that it would not build a second headquarters (known as HQ2) in Queens, New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo called it a “lost economic opportunity” and blamed “a small group [of] politicians [who] put their own narrow political interests above their community.”The dispute between the two Democrats lays bare a divide over the plan to offer $2.8 billion in tax breaks for Amazon to establish a major presence in New York City. On one side, old hands like Cuomo; on the other, the newly insurgent, left-leaning wing represented by Ocasio-Cortez.“Today was the...