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CARL AZUZ: The technology company Amazon has cancelled plans to build part of a second headquarters in New York City. It's main campus is in Seattle, Washington. About a year and a half ago, Amazon announced it would build a second headquarters and more than 230 cities joined a competition to be the site of it. New York City and Crystal City, Virginia were two of them combined they offered Amazon $2.8 billion worth of incentives¹ — benefits like tax breaks. And they became the two places Amazon chose for it's second headquarters. Amazon was expected to eventually bring 25,000 high paying jobs to each city and tens of billions of dollars in new tax revenue. But protests started in New York.

Residents didn't like their current tax dollars being spent to attract Amazon and some are concerned that home prices would rise making them too expensive for people who already live there. Amazon and several New York politicians blamed each other for the reasons why the project was cancelled. The company says it won't reopen its search for another campus right now but the governor of New Jersey² says his state's open for business.

1 incentives   

激励某人做某事的事物( incentive的名词复数 )； 刺激； 诱因； 动机

参考例句：

• tax incentives to encourage savings 鼓励储蓄的税收措施
• Furthermore, subsidies provide incentives only for investments in equipment. 更有甚者，提供津贴仅是为鼓励增添设备的投资。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

2 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。