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Four favorites to win Amazon’s HQ2
The tech giant has narrowed the competition for where to build its second headquarters down to 20 cities
While there are officially 20 cities Amazon is deciding between, economists have singled out four stand-out contenders.
The four cities, all located in Southern states, are being called favorites by the Wall Street Journal due to their labor-markets and employment growth. Known as Sunbelt cities, they have the right mix of capable, highly-educated workers minus fierce competition from whom Amazon might have to fight to hire them away.
“There are some places like Boston that have a lot of well educated workers, but if you look at the unemployment rate…it would have a difficult time accommodating 50,000 new workers,” said Oxford Economics’ Matthew Mowell. Here are cities the that seem like the front-runners in the quest to bring Amazon to town:
Austin
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Raleigh
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Nashville
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Dallas
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[WSJ] — Erin Hudson