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Washington state Democrats secure funding to make child care more affordable and accessible | March 12, 2020
OLYMPIA – Today, the Legislature made major investments in child care and early learning. With passage of the 2020 supplemental budgets, families will be able to better afford child care,…
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Free College Tuition, More High-Demand Degrees, Become Reality for Over a Hundred Thousand Washington Students | February 11, 2020
OLYMPIA – Washington will keep its promise to make public college tuition-free for low-income students after the Legislature passed an update to the Workforce Education Investment Act. This major workforce…
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Seattle Times: Seattle donates three underused parcels to develop affordable housing | September 15, 2019
Seattle is transferring three parcels of surplus city land to nonprofit developers at no cost, becoming the first city to take advantage of a state program to make underutilized public…
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UW Magazine: At the UW and beyond, Frank Chopp, ’75, has always been a ‘rabble-rouser’ | May 8, 2019
For a couple of months in 1974, Frank Chopp lived in a Seattle parking lot. The UW student wanted to draw attention to the demolition of low-income housing nearby. He…
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House Democrats to select new speaker this summer | April 24, 2019
OLYMPIA – The state House Democratic Caucus will meet July 31 to select a replacement for Speaker Frank Chopp, who is stepping aside after 20 years in the position. Chopp…
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