The Wall Street Journal (Jan. 12) – Amazon.com Inc.’s warehouses in California’s Central Valley have brought jobs to some of the communities hardest hit in the last recession, but the jobs sometimes come at a cost. Illinois is paying a corporate tax credit of about $1,000 a year each for some of the 7,000 jobs Amazon will have at its fulfillment centers near Chicago by the end of the year, says Eliza Forsythe, a professor of economics at Illinois.
