Amazon's promise of 50,000 new jobs is drawing massive crowds across America (AMZN)

Amazon is promising to hire 50,000 people in one day at job fairs across the country.

The events are drawing thousands of people to Amazon fulfillment centers in Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee, Illinois, and seven other states.

The popularity of the fairs is leading to excessively long lines for registration and interviews.

Here's what people are seeing at the events across the US.

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