When Amazon executives and Virginia state officials inked a deal to bring the company’s second headquarters to Arlington, they laid out a timeline for the tech giant to gradually add 25,000 new jobs at that site by the end of this decade — or at least by 2038.
More than six years and 7,000 new positions later, though, the company is not so sure it will hit that target in time — just as the Washington region needs additional private-sector positions more than ever.
Amazon’s most recent application to Virginia for taxpayer subsidies said that its confidence it would meet that jobs target had dropped to a “moderate” level, according to a copy of the application obtained through a public records request. Every previous annual Amazon report to the commonwealth detailing its job growth at the HQ2 site noted a “high” level of confidence in the employment goal.
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