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What it’s like for kids to grow up in Washington state: The good, the bad and the ugly
Posted on Author Bill Dow
A new report rates the well-being of Washington’s kids as just above average. Here’s why. The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual Kids Count Data Book rates all 50 U.S. states on a multitude of factors, and uses them to calculate four main indicators: economic well-being, education, health, and family and community. Washington places 19th overall – the […]
Chuck Collins to appear at Common Good Cafe in Thursday, with Real Change Reads
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Please join Real Change Reads this Thursday, September 20th at 7pm at the Common Good Cafe, to meet Chuck Collins, author of 99 to 1, How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It. This exciting opportunity is for you to meet the author and discuss the book, along with the reading group participants from around the […]
Stratospheric Wall Street compensation, tax avoidance by corporations
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“The top five U.S. banks paid staff a combined $119 billion for 2010, according to bank consolidated income statements.” from this Reuters article: Compensation seen rising among bankers: poll. Add in Goldman Sachs and the compensation comes to about $140 billion. According to Dollars&Sense Wall Street financiers received $20.8 billion in bonuses last year on […]