Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job
by vdnkh on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:13PM
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>anything to help people who already live there is what should happen.
People who live here will benefit from this. NYC has a much more diverse candidate pool than SV - 47% of our tech workers are immigrants. Our schools are more diverse; there are more programs to teach underrepresented groups CS skills. They will benefit from this.
>gentrifying forces of a thousands of tech employees.
Can you explain how gentrification will actually play out, and how it's different than 25k jobs being created organically over the next decade?
People who live here will benefit from this. NYC has a much more diverse candidate pool than SV - 47% of our tech workers are immigrants. Our schools are more diverse; there are more programs to teach underrepresented groups CS skills. They will benefit from this.
>gentrifying forces of a thousands of tech employees.
Can you explain how gentrification will actually play out, and how it's different than 25k jobs being created organically over the next decade?
>$1.5 billion in housing
Just because Amazon has been given an incentive doesn't mean that housing gets short sticked. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/about/press-releases/2018/07/m...