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Employment Security Department

  • News

    June 8, 2011

    Apply Yourself

    Why the state's unemployment requirements need to change.

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Unemployment Crackdown Ignores the Obvious: The State's Job Search Rules Are a Joke

    ​Nobody likes the idea of paying hard-earned money for other people to get a free ride. So in a way it makes sense that the state Employment Security Department yesterday announced a crackdown on people who were collecting benefits without meeting requirements designed to make sure they were a ... More >>

  • News

    August 25, 2010

    Charity Mace

    Unemployed "99ers" pose a toxic threat to overwhelmed social-service agencies.

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Even If You Find a Job, Health Care Is Getting Harder to Come By

    Just because you got a new job doesn't mean you'll get to see this guy again any time soon.​The state's unemployment rate just keeps creeping up--now at 9.5 percent. So 2014--the year Obamacare goes into effect--might seem really far off if you lost your job and with it your employer-provided ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Seattle's Unemployment Rate Catches Up With the State

    A sign of things to come?​In former Seattle Weekly writer Fred Moody's book "Seattle and the Demons of Ambition," someone, I can't remember who, made the case that the city's unemployment rate was always half or double the nation's. The comment was meant to relate how Seattle had been shaped b ... More >>

  • News

    June 8, 2005

    787 Hiring Outsourced

    A foreign-owned firm gets a state contract.

  • News

    March 23, 2005

    Bioengineered Pork

    Gov. Christine Gregoire wants to spend $350 million on life-sciences research grants. Few are asking what the public gets in return.

  • News

    March 9, 2005

    Health Care, The Economy, Boeing

    Gov. Christine Gregoire wants to spend $350 million on life-sciences research grants. Few are asking what the public gets in return.

  • News

    October 27, 2004

    Armageddon for the GOP

    With seven days left, Dino Rossi and other Washington Republicans need a miracle.

  • News

    November 19, 2003

    Biotech Land Rush

    A glut of development is planned in Seattle, Bothell, and Rentonenough to accommodate tens of thousands of life-science researchers and other 'knowledge' workers. Are there enough tenants to go around?

  • News

    January 16, 2002

    Tax cuts now!

    Business leaders demand tax relief.

  • News

    December 5, 2001

    Boeing bust

    Massive cuts at the Lazy B will drive unemployment higher.

  • News

    June 27, 2001

    The New New Economy?

    As Seattle brushes off from the dot-com fallout, other strategies emerge.

  • News

    October 14, 1998

    Life below the line

    In the debate over I-688, we tend not to look too closely at the people it's intended to help—the state's minimum-wage earners.

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