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do you have a link to that data?



Here you go[0]. Some highlights:

1. $2.988 billion in state/city subsidies (so ~$48,000 per job)

2. The state estimated that Amazon will generate $27.5 billion in state and city revenue over 25 years, a 9:1 ratio of revenue to subsidies.

Using the numbers above, we can calculate that the state would break even in roughly 3 years if they're correct.

[0]https://ny.curbed.com/2018/11/16/18098589/amazon-hq2-nyc-que...


The subsidies themselves would have been given to Amazon over the course of several years. NY would be in the black after no more than a year.




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