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If lawmakers do not take action in 2027, the PFML program will run out of funds to pay benefits in the next few years.
We can rebuild public services for health care, mental health, and education, and begin to adequately fund early learning and care by putting in place an excise tax on employer for their decisions to provide surplus compensation to executive employees.
The Millionaires Tax is a 9.9% tax on earnings over $1 million. Households and individuals with total yearly income below $1 million will not pay this tax.
Washington state has more households struggling to meet basic needs than in the Great Recession.
Together, we can lay the groundwork for the next decade of progressive policy in Washington state.
Immigrant communities are in danger. Currently, Washington does not provide an option for workers to take paid time off to address these dire circumstances.
Many Washingtonians cannot benefit from generational wealth, like inheriting a home, having family members pay for school, or receiving a trust fund. Baby Bonds give young adults “start-up” funds to self-determine their future, ensuring every child gets benefits often exclusively reserved for the wealthy.
Lawmakers need to act to fund the public good.
This session, we can close the job protection loophole.
This session, lawmakers must pass multiple progressive revenue solutions to fund the programs and services that help make Washington communities affordable.
Initiative Measure 1 will provide a higher minimum wage for more Burien workers over time.
In 2024, EOI is focused on passing legislation that invests more of the tremendous wealth generated by our economy in innovative programs for the public good, counteracting systemic racial inequities, and boosting support for workers and families.
Washington’s largest health systems are using outsized market power to demand higher payments from insurers, which in turn inflates prices for consumers without improving care.
This bill makes important changes that are necessary to increase prescription drug price accountability and offer relief to patients sooner.
View and download the Fair Health Prices fact sheet on House Bill 1508 and its companion Senate Bill 5519.
It is possible to reverse the economic effects of the COVID pandemic and build healthy and resilient communities here in Washington.
Over the past two years, 250,000 workers and families have benefited. Let’s make it even better.
As 2021 draws to a close, the COVID-19 pandemic heads into its third year. We face a choice: should we invest in resilient communities and a more equitable economy? Or maintain the status quo and emerge from this pandemic with an even more unequal society than before? Washington needs to increase investments in K-12 and […]
Our state must invest now to prevent further damage and begin undoing deeply entrenched inequality.
Investment in the public good is an investment in all of us.
How do you make sure legislators are listening to your concerns and prioritizing the issues that matter most to you and your communities?
COVID highlights importance of key changes for equitable access.
We can rebuild public services for health care, mental health, and education, and begin to adequately fund early learning and care by putting in place an excise tax on employer for their decisions to provide surplus compensation to executive employees.
Policymakers must make forward‐looking choices to raise new progressive revenues for investment that will promote widespread and equitable recovery.
The resulting cuts in public services undermined health and economic opportunity for hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians, particularly harming lower-income individuals and communities.
Workers have won strong paid leave laws.
Emergency workers are on the front line of the COVID‐19 outbreak
House Bill 2821 will improve health care affordability for those who need it most.
Social Security improves the economic security of more than 1.3 million Washington residents and their families.
Cascade Care will make health care more affordable and accessible in the individual insurance market and for all Washingtonians.
We could consider an excise tax on employers to progressively fund public services and rein in the acceleration of employer-based compensation to top of employees.
Senate Bill 5658 will eliminate this tax preference for precious metals, enabling enhanced investments in public services for the people of our state.
Increasing the state estate tax rate could result in over $300 million of new revenue for the state of Washington in the upcoming biennium. This revenue could fund early learning, health coverage, or community college tuition, opening new doors of opportunity for state residents and better meeting the needs of our people.