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Amazon Plans to Donate $8 Million to Two Homelessness Groups

  • Last year company backed repeal of tax to help the homeless
  • The cost of living in Seattle has surged amid the tech boom
Makeshift tent encampments sit under a highway in Seattle, Washington on June 5, 2019. 

Makeshift tent encampments sit under a highway in Seattle, Washington on June 5, 2019. 

Photographer: Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg
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Amazon.com Inc. plans to donate $8 million to two nonprofit groups working on homelessness and affordable housing in Seattle and Arlington County, Virginia.

Seattle’s largest employer has long been a target of activists there who contend the company didn’t do its part to help the city moderate a surge in the cost of living amid the tech boom.