In California’s Central Valley, Amazon.com Inc.’s warehouses have brought jobs to some of the communities hardest hit in the last recession. The addition of two fulfillment centers over the past two years in Tracy, Calif., has helped push the local unemployment rate down from 18% in 2011 to 7.8% as of November in San Joaquin County, local economists said. Combined with two other regional facilities, Amazon has said it is adding about...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 13, 2017 02:46 UTC