there's enough to piss off everyone in this exploration of amazon being gifted much cash by a state government, and lots of things that should be considered in the practices of 'our' government no matter where they are found;
Students at a New York public
university are baffled and outraged by an endorsement from their
school’s board of directors of a controversial city giveaway to the
company owned by the world’s richest man. Their endorsement follows a
tuition hike adding to the students’ outrage.
The
board members of the City University of New York (CUNY) provided
valuable public- relations credibility for a multibillion-dollar subsidy
to Amazon for establishing a second headquarters in the New York area.
The board’s statement claimed that the move would somehow benefit the
school’s largely low-income students — not typically prime candidates
for Amazon’s high-paying jobs.
“They’re
using CUNY for political gain when CUNY itself, the members that make
up CUNY, are adamantly against it,” Carlos Jesus Calzadilla, a Brooklyn
College student and founder of the YPA, told WhoWhatWhy.
“Thompson is irresponsible. We’ve been calling on CUNY to get more
funding and instead they’re doing tuition hikes again, adjunct
professors have poverty wages, infrastructure is crumbling, hiring
freezes everywhere.”
Students
were left to question how the city could afford to give Amazon huge tax
breaks while their campuses were not receiving the attention or funding
they required. In a Facebook event created by the Brooklyn College
chapter of the Young Progressives of America (YPA), a nonprofit that
encourages young people to “implement America’s progressive agenda and
facilitate positive change,” the organization says that CUNY should be
focusing on its current problems, such as decrepit learning environments and inadequate pay for adjunct professors, rather than currying favor with one of the world’s richest men...............https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/12/10/ny-students-arent-buying-amazons-sweetheart-deal/
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