Keith Ellison: Desperate Bids for New Amazon HQ Prove Something 'Deeply Wrong' With America
Keith Ellison
Keith Ellison: Desperate Bids for New Amazon HQ  Prove Something 'Deeply Wrong' With America
Critics of Amazon's "race to the bottom" as  it  searches for a home for  its  second headquarters said on Thursday that the company's newly released shortlist of 20 cities highlights a crisis in the U.S. economyâone exemplified by the huge incentives offered to Amazon in the bidding war among potential hosts.
 Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)  was among those slamming Amazon and the state and local governments willing to give billions of dollars in tax breaks to the extremely wealthy multinational company.
In addition to the incentives mentioned by  Ellison   Boston offered $75 million to provide affordable housing to Amazon employees  while Maryland's offer exceeded $5 billion.
On the latest We The Podcast  we discuss Amazon's monopolistic rise and what it's meant for workers and our democracy. https://t.co/r3iHKugGmz pic.twitter.com/0R6W51pUuq â Rep. Keith Ellison (@keithellison) December 15  2017
[TGT] Prove Something 'Deeply Wrong' With America
Critics of Amazon's "race to the bottom" as   [TGT]   searches for a home for   [TGT]   second headquarters said on Thursday that the company's newly released shortlist of 20 cities highlights a crisis in the U.S. economyâone exemplified by the huge incentives offered to Amazon in the bidding war among potential hosts.
  [TGT] was among those slamming Amazon and the state and local governments willing to give billions of dollars in tax breaks to the extremely wealthy multinational company.
In addition to the incentives mentioned by   [TGT] Boston offered $75 million to provide affordable housing to Amazon employees  while Maryland's offer exceeded $5 billion.
On the latest We The Podcast  we discuss Amazon's monopolistic rise and what it's meant for workers and our democracy. https://t.co/r3iHKugGmz pic.twitter.com/0R6W51pUuq â Rep. Keith Ellison (@keithellison) December 15  2017