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- 12:09am — June 30, 2022
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Pima County Economic Development Director John Moffatt: "We welcome Amazon to the region and are grateful to our private-sector partners who made the move possible. But let’s also give credit to Pima County’s leaders who had the vision over the years to work with the private sector to help make our region ready to compete for these businesses."... Read more»
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1 comment on this story
The promised new Amazon distribution center is a “lucky” hit due not to any deliberate strategy on the part of local governments or private actors, but rather to the geographical location of Pima County, which is becoming something of a trade entrepot.
However, the Internet is full of descriptions of these centers as offering jobs that are (1) low-paying; (2) repetitive, without significant on-the-job learning or career advancement; and (3) managed under what first-person accounts describe as “grueling conditions.”
Maybe I’m jaded, but providing near-poorhouse opportunities for Tucsonans may count as economic development—they generate a lot of sales for Amazon, and some taxes for local government—but not holistic community development.
But Tucson and Pima have been here before, more than once or twice….