The New York and Washington regions were the big winners in Amazon.com Inc.’s contest for its new headquarters project, leaving others behind because the two East Coast metro areas had the sheer scale to meet the company’s needs for 50,000 workers. However, many second-tier U.S. cities on Amazon’s list of finalists have lower unemployment rates than the national average of 3.7%, and several have lower unemployment and faster labor-force growth than the two winners.
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