Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez and White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett are kicking off a national tour to promote paid leave policies around the country. The Lead on Leave road show starts in Seattle this coming Wednesday April 1st, part of…
Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez and White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett are kicking off a national tour to promote paid leave policies around the country. The Lead on Leave road show starts in Seattle this coming Wednesday April 1st, part of…
Happy New Year! Often we take the first day of the year to look back to what happened, or didn’t, in the previous year. That doesn’t make a road map for the future. So why don’t we imagine looking back…
One week ago the sun set at its earliest: 4:16 p.m. Every day forward means that the sun sets a little later. By Christmas day we will have gained five minutes of extra sun at the end of the day!…
After a big push from business to throw out SeaTac’s living wage initiative, Judge Andrea Darvas nullified the city’s Good Job’s Initiative due to findings of duplicated signatures. Every time a duplicate was found, both signatures had to be thrown…
A higher minimum wage. There’s lots of new buzz over the minimum wage, with fast food walk-outs and protests here in Seattle and in cities across the country. The common theme: people are calling for decent wages that can support…
