Protesters in San Francisco block a Google bus, which shuttles employees from the city to its location in Silicon Valley. cjmartin/Flickr hide caption
Income Inequality In The San Francisco Bay Area The Bay Area, for all its exciting and economically prosperous new ideas and tech businesses, is also a place where it's increasingly expensive to live and earn a living, if you aren't part of a certain technologically driven class of people. An NPR series explores the impact of inequality in the region on transportation, housing, wages and more.
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Income Inequality In The San Francisco Bay Area
It's increasingly expensive to live in the Bay Area if you aren't part of the tech world.
This San Francisco man doesn't have a home, but he does have a laptop. Laura Sydell/NPR hide caption
Residents of the Embassy House, a communal home near San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, eat dinner together every Sunday. Elise Hu/NPR hide caption
Manny Cardenas, seen here with his 5-year-old daughter Zoe, has earned $16 an hour as a part-time security guard at Google. Laura Sydell/NPR hide caption
San Francisco's median home price hit $1 million this year. Patrick Shyu/Flickr hide caption
Protesters in San Francisco block a Google bus, which shuttles employees from the city to its location in Silicon Valley. cjmartin/Flickr hide caption
One of several robots at the University of California, San Francisco's hospital pharmacy helps manage and track its drug inventory. Leland Kim/University of California, San Francisco hide caption
Last Monday, protesters blocked a bus that transports San Francisco Google employees to Silicon Valley. Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/Courtesy of San Francisco Bay Guardian hide caption