Seattle turned into a vastly riskier place to live for poor people. It became nearly impossible to afford even the cheapest market-rate housing.

Professor Jacob Vigdor has conservative bonafides and raised progressives' ire with his past research on the minimum wage. But now he's all in for Washington to tax the rich.

Vigdor is a professor at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance with a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He said ...

Puget Sound-based commerce organizations are strongly urging state lawmakers not to raise taxes on businesses to address a ...

Jayapal cited Seattle’s history of protests — notably against the World Trade Organization a quarter-century ago — and the city’s minimum wage fight, to say that Seattle is a good place to ...

“I was unaware of everything, I was unaware of minimum wage, unaware of what I should have been making,” Bello said. To address situations like this and other mistreatment domestic workers can face, ...

Small businesses across Washington are bracing themselves for a slate of proposed taxes aimed to plug the state's $13 billion budget shortfall.

Many Americans prefer employing U.S. teens over migrant workers and child labor build responsibility and work ethic ...