Our state’s public structures and services are the oil of our economic engine. From roads to bridges, preschool to college, veterans’ benefits to senior services and protections for our air and drinking water, we’re all better off when we invest…
Our state’s public structures and services are the oil of our economic engine. From roads to bridges, preschool to college, veterans’ benefits to senior services and protections for our air and drinking water, we’re all better off when we invest…
What’s that sound? It’s the sound of cheers and applause coming from women and their allies across Washington State. Why are we cheering? Because the Equal Pay Opportunity Act (HB 1646) just passed the Washington State House, with bipartisan support…
I’ll spare you the details — since you’ve likely been through a similarly undignified experience — but a bout of intestinal flu isn’t pretty. Hopefully you were able to do what I did: take a few days off work to…
The latest research from the Alliance for a Just Society shows just how difficult it is for people to achieve basic economic security here in Washington. The study, which analyzes household debt and surveys the wide the gulf between the state’s minimum wage and living wage for 11 states across the…
David Goldstein beautifully parses the pundits’ (and politicians’) pronouncements on state budgets, taxes and economic growth here. The highlights: General fund spending under Gov. Gregoire has merely followed the same trend established during the 1990s As a share of the…
