The Blowback From Amazon HQ2

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 27, 2018

Maritza Silva-Farrell, executive director at ALIGN NY, an alliance of labor and environmental justice groups, and one of the Amazon protest sponsors and Lena Afridi, director of economic policy development at the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development, and Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code and former NYC deputy public advocate, voice their concerns about the Amazon HQ2 deal in Long Island City, and the company's impact on labor, housing, and diversity in tech jobs.

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