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New health exchange for businesses
Small businesses in our state can now peruse 23 different insurance plans to cover their 50 or fewer employees beginning January 2015. And some of these businesses will even...
When silence isn’t golden
That’s right, sometimes silence is not at all golden. Certainly not when it comes to reporting suspected abuse or neglect of children and vulnerable adults. The fact that October was...
The tale of America’s middle class collapse in three charts
What’s happened to America’s vast middle class? A recently released study by a team of economists from the London School of Economics and U.C. Berkeley, shows that middle-class share of...
We’re #12!
No, this isn’t a reference to the Seahawks 12th man, but it’s just as exciting – Washington state’s ranking on political engagement! Some of the folks who have been working...
Think health care reform doesn’t help real people?
If you’ve had a claim for mental health services declined since 2006 due to a simple blanket exclusion of coverage for treatment, and you paid out of pocket for that...
For parents, here’s the scariest part about Halloween—and how to make it safer
This Halloween, don’t worry about evil clowns or zombies. Think about traffic. Trick-or-treat night is the most dangerous day of the year for kids, with an average of 5.5 deaths...
A nickel here, a dollar there; it all adds up
Besides apple pie and cowboys, if there is one thing America is well-known for, it’s “The American Dream.” The idea that no matter where you start out, if you work...
Turning back the clock
It’s pretty hard to come up with good things to say about the Great Depression. But here’s one: If it hadn’t been for the Great Depression, we wouldn’t have upwards...
Cranberry harvest is in full swing
Behold, the cranberry. A cranberry dish is a big part of Thanksgiving spreads across the nation, and cranberry juice has come into its own in recent decades. The yearly Cranberry...
Marijuana barred in 40 Percent of Washington
Since the passage of I-502 in 2012, a number of local governments have made the decision to bar the growth, processing and/or sale of recreational marijuana within their city limits....