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Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes

GeekWire

Coding for Cancer Hanako Osuga, in the background, is the program coordinator leading the Coding for Cancer program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, an effort designed to expose students to the possibilities of applying computational skills to cancer research. Denver and Dallas and has helped more then 6,200 people get housing.

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Amazon adds mental health benefit for U.S. workers with access to counseling, crisis support and more

GeekWire

employees and their families on Thursday, providing access to free counseling sessions, self-care programs, crisis support, and an app for self-paced treatment. In a news release, Amazon cited the nonprofit Mental Health America , which said more than 26 million adults went untreated for mental health concerns in the U.S.

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When your job helps the rest of America work

Vox

“Child care workers, the people providing this labor and this service that is absolutely vital to the continuing of our economy and families, are so underpaid that they can’t afford to cover their basic needs,” said Asha Banerjee, an economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank. Starting a day care isn’t easy.