The Unexpected Cost of Trying to Land Amazon’s HQ2 – Governing

August 29, 2018

No mention of Chicago in this article, but “This is basically Amazon's way of gathering a lot of information for free in a short amount of time and understanding the incentives those localities are willing to offer,” says Kasia Tarczynska, who curates the data on Amazon for Good Jobs First.

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