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Can Jeff Bezos help the homeless? 4 essential reads

  • Written by Aviva Rutkin, Big Data + Applied Mathematics Editor
A homeless man in Times Square.AP Photo/Julie Jacobson

Tonight, some 554,000 people in the U.S. will be homeless.

Many of them live on the West Coast, where Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is launching a new fund that plans to fight the problem. Part of the US$2 billion donated by Bezos will be spent “to provide shelter and hunger support to address the...

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