Monica Nickelsburg
Labor & Economy Reporter
About
Monica Nickelsburg is an economy reporter covering labor issues, the changing nature of work, the rise and fall of industries, technology trends, and workplace equity. She has extensive experience covering Amazon, Microsoft, and other major players re-shaping the Seattle region.
Monica spent six years covering the intersection of technology and public policy as GeekWire’s civic editor. As a freelancer, she’s covered food and sustainability for The Food and Environment Reporting Network, Civil Eats, Grist, and others. Before moving to Seattle, Monica worked as a digital producer for The Week and interned for NBC, The Daily Beast, and Forbes. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University in Journalism and History.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: she/her
Podcasts
Stories
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Economy
Boeing, my dad, and Airplane Economics 101
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The risky business of airplanes
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Politics
Seattle is minting millionaires by the thousands
About 1 in every 14 Seattleites are millionaires, making it second only to the Bay Area for “millionaire density.”
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Economy
Why free money makes you more likely to get a job
Guaranteed basic income is an anti-poverty policy gaining traction in Washington cities. Tacoma just started its second basic income pilot, on the heels of a separate King County experiment. KUOW’s economy podcast, Booming, sat down with Natalie Foster, the architect of more than 130 basic income pilots across the country to understand a surprising finding from King County’s basic income experiment, and what it means for the policy more broadly.
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Environment
Microsoft’s carbon emissions surge despite goal of becoming ‘carbon negative’ by 2030
Microsoft latest sustainability report card, released Wednesday, reveals a sobering reality: the artificial intelligence revolution is undercutting the tech industry’s efforts to decarbonize.
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The solution to our struggling power grid could be hiding in your closet
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What’s sending first-generation electric cars to an early grave?
A growing number of early electric car adopters are scrapping or replacing their cars when batteries that are no longer under warranty go haywire.
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What's sending first gen electric cars to an early grave
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Business
Starbucks union negotiations resume after long impasse
Unionized Starbucks stores sent more than 150 delegates to Atlanta Wednesday to resume talks between Starbucks and Workers United, the union representing more than 400 stores.
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Business
Expert says Boeing's decision to move HQ from Seattle contributed to safety crisis
The decision to move Boeing’s headquarters out of Seattle was one of several factors that eroded the company’s safety culture, according to expert testimony during a Senate hearing Wednesday.