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Green Acre Radio: The Just Garden Project is part of a network of efforts to improve food choices for people often forced to accept less-healthy ways of feeding themselves and their families.
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In Seattle and nationally, our political discourse is frustrating and circular, wrapping us in irrelevant talking points. How about discussing the ways we make a better future?
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A coalition of homeless advocacy groups are occupying Westlake Park in an effort to bring attention to what they describe as the ineffectiveness of King County's Committee to End Homelessness.
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Despite the renewed Washington Incentives program and a vibrant film community, local indie filmmakers are struggling to find work in the place they love.
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As the Legislature struggles with budget issues, people need to speak up for protecting the services that many people rely upon. An expert offers advice, drawing on Occupy Wall Street's tactics.
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Unaffordable rents, says a new national report, keep many Americans homeless. Some who are living in their cars at a rest stop off a major highway attest to the challenges.
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Exploited home care workers are fighting for better terms and safer conditions. Aging boomers have a stake in the fight -- if they want to grow old gracefully and avert a Medicare meltdown.
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The City of Seattle and the UW join to provide a voice for the unemployed - a force 23 million strong nationally - at "Unemployed Nation" hearings next week.
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A coalition of local and global health groups have banded together to bring the lessons they've learned in developing countries to south King County, where the health index is as bad as Nairobi.
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This not-to-be-missed national exhibition of photographs at Seattle City Hall is bolstered by local photojournalist Dan Lamont's images of Washington state families experiencing homelessness.
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The fact that millions of fellow citizens are trapped in poverty is on our minds, and not only because of a Mitt Romney remark. A UW panel proposed a few remedies.
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A movement to add local and state laws has spread around the country.
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Washington will let tens of thousands of jobs get away or go to out-of-state students because of its declining level of support for higher education.
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A state Senate bill from Seattle's Adam Kline could allow some lower-income people to escape the job-destroying consequences of failing to pay minor tickets. But they could face collection agencies.
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Marcellus Turner, Seattle's new City Librarian, talks about why Seattleites love their libraries and how he plans to keep things that way. Even in the midst of budget cuts.
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British Columbia finally raised its minimum wage to levels comparable and ahead of most of Canada, but that still leaves workers under the poverty level. What are the policies that would really end poverty?
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