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Seattle Now: Power shift in the gig economy

Covid has upended the economy, even the gig economy, and some of the changes are here to stay.
Patricia Murphy

Clare McGrane
Politics

August 26th | How do we get internet access for all?

Connecting the city of Seattle as remote schooling starts. What Seattle City Councilor Alex Pedersen thinks about SPD. How a stopped ferry is hurting the Port Angeles economy. And the man who will help us release the Kraken.
Marcie Sillman
Business

What's the plan for all these empty offices?

Offices all over the city are sitting empty while workers Zoom from home in their shorts. So what’s going to happen to all that space? We'll ask Seattle Times real estate reporter Katherine Khashimova Long.
Patricia Murphy
Politics

A police chief out and a vice presidential candidate in, this week

Ross Reynolds reviews the week's news with King 5 reporter Tony Black, Washington State Wire publisher DJ Wilson, and Q13 correspondent Brandi Kruse.
Ross Reynolds

Sarah Leibovitz
Washington sets aside $40M in relief funds for undocumented residents

Seattle residents and Washingtonians applied for relief funds as the coronavirus pandemic slashed their incomes and savings. For Washington’s undocumented workers, that was never an option. Now after months of pressure from immigration activists and organizations, Governor Jay Inslee is launching a state fund for undocumented workers. Forty million dollars worth to be exact.
Esmy Jimenez
Government

Federal unemployment aid is coming to an end, but the economic crisis persists. What’s next?

Unemployed people in our state are about to lose $600 a week. This is money that the federal government has been adding to unemployment checks during the pandemic. Now, that program is coming to an end, even though the economic crisis is not over.
Kim Malcolm

Carolyn Adolph
Government

Thousands of Washingtonians still waiting for first unemployment check

One woman’s story of unemployment insecurity during the pandemic
Kim Malcolm

Andy Hurst
Farmworkers face ‘a myriad of indignities’ during pandemic

‘It is about workers feeling that finally it is made really clear that their lives don't matter’
Kim Malcolm

Andy Hurst
The cost of a strawberry: Overtime battle for Washington's farm workers

Strawberry season doesn’t mean strawberry shortcake or strawberry jam for Ana. It means long days bent nearly double to snap ripe strawberries from where they grow, near the ground. “You have to lean over a lot to pick strawberries,” she said. “So of course everything hurts: your legs, your back--everything.”
Eilís O'Neill
Government

Washington state is running out of dollars for unemployment claims — and may need to borrow money

Unemployed workers have been relying on the state employment security department to keep them out of poverty during this pandemic. Now, that agency says it could run out of money by the end of the year.
Carolyn Adolph

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