cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/43763
On a February morning in 2024, a little-known agency in Rockland County held a public hearing on a proposed subsidy for the expansion of a JPMorganChase data center in Orangeburg, near the New Jersey border. In return for nearly $77 million in tax breaks, the project promised to create exactly one permanent job. No one showed up. After 20 minutes of silence, an agency official called the…
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So what are the jobs? Security guards? Maintenance technicians?
There’s got to be a standardized way these things are set up, probably a lot of hardware that could be “repurposed” to benefit individuals and communities. Inquiring minds want to know.