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Advocacy in hard times: Lessons from the Occupy movement
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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'Hard, scary, sad': life at a highway rest stop
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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Desperate caregivers find natural allies in graying baby boomers
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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Striking show on homeless families opens
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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House D's place their bets on shifting school costs to next budget
The Democrats' budget proposal relies heavily on leaving it to the next legislature to figure out how to cover costs from this budget. And it continues cuts in higher education.
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'The very poor' can climb out of poverty but only if we let them
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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Judge rules in DESC's favor on crisis diversion site
A group of neighbors contested the location of the Crisis Solutions Center in the Jackson Place community. King County Superior Court ruled in DESC's favor, but the delay (and cost to taxpayers) continues.
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Families living in vehicles need 'Safe Parking'
A city-funded pilot program in Ballard will provide parking spaces, some amenities, and info on housing resources to families whose only home rides on four wheels.
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How a United Way event gets at real needs of the homeless
A caring person can help in overcoming the emotional shutdown that often accompanies life on the streets. Then the next step is imaginable, at least: a place to live, no matter how humble.
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Unkindest cuts in Olympia: Kate's story
While Occupy protesters were in Olympia, the quiet testimony of a disabled woman named Kate put a human face on the drastic cuts the legislature and the governor are contemplating.
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Love leads us into mystery: Raising a child with Asperger's
Daniel was not like other kids. But he taught his mother to drop her expectations about what life and parenting are all about.
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Best of 2011: Climbing out of homelessness, to Mount Rainier
Participants in Seattle Union Gospel Mission's recovery program reached the peak of The Mountain.
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Best of 2011: Low income? No farmers market for you
Chase fees and this year's budget cuts mean Seattle's Farmer's Market Nutrition Program may be on the chopping block. In some low-income neighborhoods, it could mean serious trouble for the markets themselves.
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Seattle process: Neighbors diverge on a diversion facility
An emergency treatment facility for people in psychiatric or drug crises on the streets was to save taxpayers the high cost of hospitals and jails. Some skeptical residents reached a Good Neighbor Agreement with DESC. Others filed an opposing lawsuit.
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