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Unemployment Rate

  • News

    August 25, 2010

    Charity Mace

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

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Mike McGinn Has A New Jobs Plan, But Will It (Or Anything Else) Ever Be Enough?

    ​Standing in front of an MSR tent and Thermarest mattresses at Cascade Designs in SoDo yesterday, Mayor Mike McGinn unveiled the city's plan to distribute $50 million in the form of small loans to local businesses (mostly from private lenders) and use a $20 million federal grant to hire worker ... More >>

  • News

    July 7, 2010

    Rossi's Way With the Jobless

    If you're out of work, Dino might not be your best friend.

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Dino Rossi Voted to Cut State Unemployment and Welfare Eligibility

    ​For more than a month now the U.S. Senate has been unable to pass a bill that would allow people who lost their jobs in the recession to continue collecting unemployment for up to 99 weeks rather than the standard 46 weeks. According to Huffington Post, 1.2 million unemployed Americans have s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    NY Times Accuses Maria Cantwell of Protecting Rich Investors at the Expense of the Unemployed

    ​Maria Cantwell has received a lot of glowing press for her work on the environment and bank regulation. But this week the New York Times came down on her hard for trying to protect a tax break for high-earning venture capitalists and private equity fund managers while an urgently-needed unemp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    State Says 186,000 People Will Be Without Income By Year's End If Congress Doesn't Act

    We'll have a lot more empty pockets here if Congress cuts the number of weeks you can be on unemployment by more than half.​According to the Employment Security Division, about 250,000 people are out of work and collecting checks from the state. Now all of those people are in danger of having ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Unemployment Is Up; Good Thing We Have a Huge Fund to Pay Benefits

    Seems everyone is jobless these days.​It seems every governmental body or department in the state is going broke. Save one. Washington's unemployment insurance fund is one of the few in the nation that isn't in debt, according to ProPublica, the non-profit investigative journalism site. ProPu ... More >>

  • News

    January 13, 2010

    Washington Bankruptcies: Not Just for the Poor Anymore

    The real estate crash starts to drag down more people.

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    State's Bankruptcies Climb as Recession Hits the Rich

    ​On economic indicators, Washington state usually does well. Our average income, at nearly $38,000, is slightly higher than the nation's, and our 9.2 percent unemployment rate is slightly lower. When it comes to bankruptcy, however, we've gone bust. According to an Associated Press report ou ... 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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Olympia Legislators: Screwed No Matter What They Do on Labor Issues

    Being a donkey has its challenges.​Managing the conflicting agendas of labor and business--both of them critical campaign contributors--is always a contortionist exercise in the state legislature. But it's likely to be even more uncomfortable in the state house this coming session. As today's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Seattle's a Good Place to Find a Job Right Now, Though Not as Good as Oklahoma City

    When he left, Nick took his job (and the hoop) with him​With the unemployment rate pushing towards double digits, no place seems all that friendly to job seekers these days. Nevertheless, Seattle's job market has the country's 13th best ratio of jobs to seekers, and the state's unemployment ra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    Imagine Having Tenure

    Even this University employee eventually got firedWith the state unemployment rate expected to climb to nearly 10% by mid 2010 (pdf), many of us aren't feeling too secure in our jobs. Imagine being this guy. The Times today takes a look at the case of Western Washington University professor Perry Mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2009

    Give Us Your College-Educated Masses...Just Don't Expect Us to Give Them Jobs

    Disaffected but undeterred, unemployed Portlanders pound the pavement in search of jobs. A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal took a look "youth magnet" cities--i.e. cities that draw lots of young, college-educated migrants. Seattle's on the list, of course, but the story focuses on our always-ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Sen. Murray on the Stimulus Package

    The U.S. Senate passed its version of the stimulus package as pushed by the Obama Administration. It was no surprise that both of Washington's Democratic Senators voted in favor of the $838 billion measure. The House version of the bill is $19 billion less and the difference between the two will be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2008

    McDermott's Unemployment Bill Passes House

    The U.S. Senate passed its version of the stimulus package as pushed by the Obama Administration. It was no surprise that both of Washington's Democratic Senators voted in favor of the $838 billion measure. The House version of the bill is $19 billion less and the difference between the two will be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2008

    Did McDermott Draft Bailout Amendment at WaMu Theater Last Night?

    The U.S. Senate passed its version of the stimulus package as pushed by the Obama Administration. It was no surprise that both of Washington's Democratic Senators voted in favor of the $838 billion measure. The House version of the bill is $19 billion less and the difference between the two will be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2008

    McDermott's Unemployment Bill Signed by Bush

    The U.S. Senate passed its version of the stimulus package as pushed by the Obama Administration. It was no surprise that both of Washington's Democratic Senators voted in favor of the $838 billion measure. The House version of the bill is $19 billion less and the difference between the two will be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2008

    McDermott Moves Bill Through House

    The U.S. Senate passed its version of the stimulus package as pushed by the Obama Administration. It was no surprise that both of Washington's Democratic Senators voted in favor of the $838 billion measure. The House version of the bill is $19 billion less and the difference between the two will be ... More >>

  • Film

    April 26, 2006

    The Beauty Academy of Kabul

    Showing at Varsity, Fri., April 28–Thurs., May 4. Not rated. 74 minutes.

  • Film

    March 15, 2006

    Gavin Hood

    Before the Oscars, this Tsotsi director was ready to seize the stage.

  • News

    March 8, 2006

    The 60-Day Sprint

    The Legislature passes measures for gay rights, alternative energy, political reform, and better unemployment benefits.

  • News

    October 27, 2004

    Armageddon for the GOP

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

  • News

    January 14, 2004

    Politics, Monorail, and Tacoma

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

  • News

    July 2, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    I think Boeing should go and take their do what we ask or else attitude with them.

  • News

    October 23, 2002

    The Politics of the Dole

    I think Boeing should go and take their do what we ask or else attitude with them.

  • News

    January 16, 2002

    Tax cuts now!

    Business leaders demand tax relief.

  • News

    December 5, 2001

    Washington's recession

    Hard times at Boeing and the dot-com collapse give us the highest unemployment rate in the nation.

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