By Sandra VanderVen Another day, another blow to the Washington State budget. Arun Raha, director of the State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council, just released an updated forecast that sends us 1.4 billion dollars back into the hole. This is after already making enormous cuts to our state budget, cuts that will hurt most of…
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Tag Archive: American Dream
Facts on the American Jobs Act
In his address to a joint session of Congress last Thursday, President Obama showed the leadership we need to get America back to work. Now the burden is on Congress to honor America’s long tradition of innovation and hard work by creating the good jobs for all Americans. To create more jobs right now, the President unveiled…
Labor Day celebrations ignore our jobless
By Nate Jackson Most folks think Labor Day is all about BBQs and kids splashing around in cheap plastic pools and keeping up appearances no matter the cost. Unfortunately Labor Day is just another day to stand in line—a day work line—and hope there’s some work to be done. This national holiday used to be…
Making Change
by Sandra VanderVen There are fundamental beliefs that I hold true. I believe that as people age, they should have peace knowing that if they have to stop working, they won’t starve. I believe that there should be special programs in place to help give everyone a leg up, no matter what is holding us…
Making Change
by Sandra VanderVen There are fundamental beliefs that I hold true. I believe that as people age, they should have peace knowing that if they have to stop working, they won’t starve. I believe that there should be special programs in place to help give everyone a leg up, no matter what is holding us…
Rebuilding the American Dream
How 10 people created change in their neighborhood by Julio A Sanchez It is not enough to talk about how upset we are by the direction the country is going. Our actions need to support our beliefs, and I believe we have to come together and work on meaningful steps to fix what we perceive…
