Austin would need to recruit talent if Amazon HQ were to open here

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Tech giant Amazon announced Thursday Austin made the “short list” of the top 20 potential cities to house the company’s second headquarters (HQ2). If Amazon came to Austin, where would the people who fill those new jobs come from?
Amazon says it will invest $5 billion in constructing the headquarters and create around 50,000 jobs, which will have an average salary of $100,000. At Amazon’s original headquarters in Seattle, the company says they create