Jeff Bezos: Bring stable employment to high unemployment urban areas

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Upon announcing additional distribution center in SE WI Milwaukee's mayor has penned an op-ed to Jeff Bezos. I wonder how Bezos would respond?

Big corporations are now so intertwined with politics via Super PAC's and Citizens United that we now have to look to CEO's to guide social change [[wtf, yikes).

FYI, Jeff Bezos and the Walton Family are each worth approx $150 Billion. Remember to vote in Nov.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2018/07/13/mayor-tom-barrett-jeff-bezos-bring-stable-employment-milwaukee/780346002/

A noticeable exception to the low unemployment rate, unfortunately, is the still high unemployment rate in communities of color. Since housing patterns are so segregated in southeastern Wisconsin, unemployment is highly concentrated in the city of Milwaukee.

That’s why we have an employment “geography gap” as well as a skills gap. It’s also why now, more than at any other time in our recent history, it is imperative that corporate America, our local business community, state and local government focus on addressing racial disparities and the geography gap.

If we don’t address unemployment in communities of color when unemployment is low, when will we do it? Or, have leaders just given up on locating jobs in central cities?