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Murray Fights for Workforce, Worker Safety Priorities in Key Spending Bill
08.02.2010 | Sen. Patty Murray Press Release | Murray fought to include $10 million in a spending bill for a State Paid Leave Fund, a competitive grant program to support start-up activities for family paid leave programs in states. Comments from Marilyn Watkins, EOI Policy Director.
Can WA's Wealthy Help Solve State Budget Crisis?
07.02.2010 | Public News Service | It looks like I-1098 will make it onto the November ballot in Washington. Petitions turned in on Thursday to the Secretary of State's office contain an estimated 360,000 signatures, well over the required number.
Recent Commentary
Initiative 1098 math adds up
09.01.2010 | John Burbank | Under I-1098, 197 out of 200 taxpayers will see their taxes go down, while just three will pay the initiative’s new income tax on the wealthy. And our state will gain $2 billion for education and health care. How is that possible?
Full Column | Everett Herald »
75 years later, Social Security still keeping its promise
08.18.2010 | John Burbank | When FDR signed the Social Security Act 75 years ago, he became the godfather of a rebirth of economic security in the midst of the Great Depression. This one act put the words of the Constitution into action -- establishing a system, insulated from the private market, which guaranteed economic security for the elderly, the disabled, and widows and their children. And it still does.
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