Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) urged her constituents to raise the bar on jobs following Amazon’s scrapped plans for a headquarters in New York City. “We need to create dignified jobs in New York City, jobs that pay well, jobs that contribute to community, jobs that are part of a moral economy,” she said in her inaugural address in the Bronx on Saturday. On Thursday, Amazon announced it was canceling its planned Headquarters 2 in Queens, which would have brought more than 25,000 jobs to Long Island City. Ocasio-Cortez, citing corporate greed and worker abuses, celebrated the news on Twitter.

Source: Huffington Post February 17, 2019 12:33 UTC