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Amazon’s HQ2 Will Be A Boon And A Burden

Take it from Seattle, having Amazon’s headquarters in your city can be a blessing. 

For every one job Amazon created in the city, it added an estimated seven external jobs as well. The 33-building tech campus drove up the average income in the area and helped foster a high-skilled economy. But alongside those changes, Seattle was also hit with traffic woes, a spike in homelessness, and the flight of African-American and low income communities to the outskirts of the city.

Host Frank Stasio speaks with and , reporters from NPR member station KUOW, about their new podcast “” that explores the city’s long-term relationship with Amazon. 

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Laura Pellicer is a digital reporter with վ’s small but intrepid digital news team.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.