When Yvette Joseph, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, ran for the 7th Legislative District in northeast Washington in 2004, she faced a structural disadvantage due to where the districtâs western border line was drawn.
âI looked and was sort of shocked that it ran right through the reservation. So essentially, half of my family could vote for me and the other half could not,â she said.
It may seem like an obscure act of cartography, but how Washington stateâs political maps are redrawn this year will help determine who gets elected and, in turn, the future of the state.
Labor advocates are concerned with SB 5061 in its current form Michael Goldberg January 25, 2021
There is concern among labor advocates that SB 5061 a bill that would provide unemployment insurance tax relief for businesses and increase the minimum weekly unemployment benefit for workers could leave some workers worse off than before.
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These concerns were aggravated after the bill was amended before passing in executive session. The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Curtis King (R – Yakima), limits an individual’s weekly benefit amount for unemployment compensation to the individual’s weekly wage using an annualized calculation. In other words, the amendment will prevent individuals from earning more through unemployment compensation than they did while working.
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WASHINGTON Some 400 delegates, attending the AFL-CIO’s annual Martin Luther King commemorative conference by zoom and video, spent their two-day event strategizing on how to gain more political power and use it for people of color.
But they also had a few words for fair-weather friends, political, and organizational, too.
The conference, held annually to commemorate the martyred civil rights leader’s birthday, revolved around the political activism that sent people of color into the streets and into politics in record numbers starting in 2018, with African-American women leading the way.
In 2020, African-Americans challenged the nation on eradicating systemic racism and campaigned to elect officeholders pledged to tackle it, principally Democratic President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the first African-American and first South Asian-American ever elected to the nation’s #2 job.
Business groups press Washington Legislature for tax cuts, other COVID-19 relief By Paul Roberts, The Seattle Times
Published: January 17, 2021, 1:23pm
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After surviving 10 months of shutdowns, heavy layoffs, steep losses and chronic uncertainty, many businesses in Washington say they won’t see the end of the pandemic without significant help from state lawmakers.
But one week into the 2021 legislative session, prospects for that relief are anything but clear.
The good news: There’s strong bipartisan support in the Democrat-controlled state House and Senate for quick action on measures such as emergency grants for small business and more than $2.6 billion in cuts for unemployment taxes and other business costs.
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