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    Director's Corner: We’re finding new ways to help vendors succeed and find community

    by Tim Harris | January 30th, 2019

    Real Change has never been an easy organization to define. We’re a nonprofit, and yet we’re a business. We help people in need to survive and thrive, but we’re not a human services agency. We create work for about 700 vendors each year, but we’re not a jobs training program.   

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    The Middle Ground by Sam Day 1/30/19

    by Sam Day | January 30th, 2019

    Contact Sam Day at sam@samday.com
    Contact Sam Day at sam@samday.com

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    Get set for the next shutdown by putting pictures of pyramids on your bank notes

    by Dr. Wes Browning | January 30th, 2019

    Adventures in Irony is a weekly dry verbal romp of the absurd. 

    So, we’ve got a three-week reprieve until Trump’s next government shutdown. Let’s take these next few of weeks to consider the president’s suggestion as to how federal employees forced to work without pay can get by. It is brilliant. He says: Remind your local grocer you’ve been their customer for years. They’ll gladly give you food for IOUs. You’re good for it, you have a federal job, they know that. They know they’ll get their money eventually.

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    How to pay for a wall?

    by Rabbi Olivier B... | January 30th, 2019
    Real Change columnist

    Who should pay to build a wall? Believe it or not, this question was asked some 2,000 years ago by the rabbis of the Talmud who, in the Tractate called Bava Batra, debated how to finance the building of a protective wall around a city. Should everyone contribute equally? Should the people whose houses would be the closest to the wall — and would, therefore, benefit most from it — pay more? Should the wealthiest contribute more than the less well off? Though the example was very specific, what the rabbis were discussing was how to establish a fair tax code.

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    Director's Corner: Camp Second Chance hopes city will allow a longer stay

    by Tim Harris | January 23rd, 2019

    Camp Second Chance is, if anything, one of this city’s more unlikely success stories. What began as a rogue rebellion against SHARE management — and briefly aspired to be the city’s first self-managed encampment for active drug users — has evolved into an inspiring model for what a city-sanctioned homeless encampment can look like.

    Led by formerly homeless Eric Davis, with case management and contract services provided by the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI), the tents at Camp Second Chance have been replaced by tiny houses.

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    Washington’s Paid Family and Medical Leave program supports workers, businesses

    by Lauren Hipp | January 23rd, 2019
    Hill City Tap House & Bottle Shop in Columbia City

    As we welcome the new year, there are many reasons to celebrate. But perhaps one of the biggest is that on Jan. 1, Washington took a huge step toward ensuring that workers across the state will have access to comprehensive paid family and medical leave for the first time. This will make a huge difference in the lives of so many families, and I’m especially excited about the changes it will bring for mine.

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    The Middle Ground by Sam Day 1/23/19

    by Sam Day | January 23rd, 2019

    Contact Sam Day at sam@samday.com
    Contact Sam Day at sam@samday.com

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    Trump’s wall is a petty vanity project

    by Oscar Rosales C... | January 23rd, 2019
    Real Change columnist

    It is a new year and, sadly, we collectively encounter many of the same issues that we wish we had left in 2018. Odds are, when these words are printed on paper, a vapid, orange-hued man with nuclear launch codes will still be holding us all hostage.

    As the government shutdown nears a full month, the question remains why the populace should have to fork over $5.7 billion to mend a racist, failed businessman’s fragile ego as a precondition for government services.

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    It’s not fake news because I can make predictions with absolute impunity

    by Dr. Wes Browning | January 23rd, 2019
    Real Change columnist

    Adventures in Irony is a dry verbal romp of the absurd. 

    Let’s talk about purveyors of fake news!

    As usual I’m getting ready to talk about myself. I’m a purveyor. Or, I think I am. Maybe.

    Last week an interview with me from 1995 was going to be reprinted as part of our look back at the archives as Real Change approaches its 25th anniversary. In it, I told my interviewer (our director), about a personal exchange between me and Betty White in 1958. At the age of 8. Me, not her.

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    Director's Corner: Moved along again

    by Tim Harris | January 16th, 2019

    When I arrived at the southbound onramp for I-5 in Northgate, 14 of the more than 20 tents that had cropped up since early November remained. The sweep was scheduled for 9 a.m., but at 8:30 a.m., the camp stood still and silent in the rain.

    Matt Lang, an organizer from the Transit Riders Union, had just arrived. A couple of SDOT trucks and a police car were parked along the road. Yellow police tape ran the length of the area.

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