A new report shows that students in Washington without stable housing are set up to fail. Now what?

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Día de los Muertos: Celebrating a Mexican tradition at Seattle Center

by Ashley Archibald | October 31st, 2018

Once a year when he was young, Edgardo García and his family would travel from Mexico City to the rural area of Cuaotitlan, the home of his mother’s family, to tend his grandfather’s grave. It was more than housekeeping or placing flowers.

“It was not just a ritual,” García said. “It was a family celebration.”
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Homelessness is a human rights issue

by Ashley Archibald | October 24th, 2018

Homeless encampments, slums and other informal dwellings exist in the poorest and richest countries in the world, and they represent a systemic violation of human rights, according to a new United Nations report.

According to the report, prepared by U.N. Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha, nearly a quarter of the world’s urban population lives in informal settlements, be they slum communities in the global south or homeless encampments in North America.
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HIV outbreak among homeless people worries health officials

by Ashley Archibald | October 24th, 2018

The reports began in the beginning of 2018.

An outbreak of new HIV/AIDS diagnoses sprang up in Seattle. By September, Public Health – Seattle & King County found more than 10 new cases concentrated among heterosexual people injecting drugs. That’s more than the department receives in an average year.
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Study: Washington bottoms out on US tax assessment

by Ashley Archibald | October 24th, 2018

Guess what? Washington state’s taxation system continues to be one of the most regressive in the country.

This news comes from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), which did a deep dive into the taxation policies of all 50 states. As in previous editions of the report, Washington bottomed out. The institute found that people in the bottom 20 percent of incomes in Washington state pay 17.8 percent of their income in taxes compared with the 3 percent paid by the richest Washingtonians.
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Voters to decide the future of carbon taxes, sugary beverage taxes, gun control and how police shootings are prosecuted

by Ashley Archibald | October 17th, 2018

There’s a bite in the air. Networks are running fall primetime premieres. Stores are confused — is it Christmas or Halloween? Is Thanksgiving still a thing?

It is election season.

Soon, mailboxes across the state will be graced with democracy envelopes, paper-based attempts to show us that, in a representative government in which majority selectively rules, your voice — yes, yours! — really does matter.
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Reporter's Notebook: Rapid rehousing examined and death penalty decision

by Ashley Archibald | October 17th, 2018
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Therapy Dogs: When it comes to trusting, loving and listening to problems they're all ears

by Ashley Archibald | October 17th, 2018

Travis Towne and Stacie Stinger had fallen on hard times.

The couple left Spokane after Towne lost his job and moved to his hometown of Seattle, but things continued to go south.

“It’s way more expensive than we thought,” Stinger said. “To save that much money is not feasible when you’re going day to day, week to week.”
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Pearl Jam reveals where the revenue from their much-hyped Home Shows is going

by Ashley Archibald | October 10th, 2018

They came. They rocked. They made a deep moral and financial commitment to prevent and fight homelessness in Washington state.

Oh yeah.

In early October, Pearl Jam delivered a final recap of their summer endeavor to raise awareness (and funds) to fight homelessness. The $10.8 million raised by the Home Shows Initiative with the help of local partners in August will target recently homeless households and homeless youth, as well as fund more than 100 existing organizations that work with homeless folks throughout Washington state.
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Reporter's Notebook: Housing veterans and Kavanaugh confirmed

by Ashley Archibald | October 10th, 2018

Vouchers for vets
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A new report shows that students in Washington without stable housing are set up to fail. Now what?

by Ashley Archibald | October 10th, 2018

Students without a stable place to live have significantly worse educational outcomes than their housed counterparts, according to a new report.
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