EOI Updates Lawmakers improve funding for college financial aid October 8, 2019 / October 26, 2026 by Aaron Keating This spring, Washington lawmakers took an important step toward making college more affordable. The Workforce Education Investment Act expands the Washington College Grant (formerly called the State Need Grant), guarantees aid to students below state median income, and provides a new dedicated funding source by raising taxes on tech and other businesses. Here’s what the […] Read more »
EOI Updates Moving toward universal health coverage October 2, 2019 / October 26, 2026 by Hannah Rapp The stakes are high in the debate over health care, and the health industry millionaire and billionaires aren’t going to give up their means of acquiring wealth easily. The Sackler family made a literal killing hooking Americans on opioids, and are now trying to shield their ill-gotten gains from lawsuits. Private equity firms, it turns […] Read more »
EOI Updates Stop treating Black kids like criminals September 6, 2019 / October 26, 2026 by Sara Bekele As kids across the state head back to school, some teachers in Seattle were left with no students to teach. Students at schools with high percentages of students of color walked out demanding equitable funding and fewer cuts to staff. They also wanted implicit bias training. One event overshadowed this demand: Last May, when a […] Read more »
EOI Updates It’s time to put the labor militancy back in labor day September 2, 2019 / October 26, 2026 by Marilyn Watkins “No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so that after his day’s work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in […] Read more »
EOI Updates Your legislator May not understand how much college costs August 22, 2019 / October 26, 2026 by Aaron Keating Each of the thousands of students heading to college in Seattle, Pullman, Bellingham, Ellensburg, Cheney, Olympia and other Washington cities this fall will have a different experience in school — but there is one thing they’ll all face together: extremely high tuition. It hasn’t always been this way though, and many of today’s state legislators […] Read more »
EOI Updates “Equal pay day” masks difficulties Black and brown women face August 22, 2019 / October 26, 2026 by Gabriela Quintana Dear black women, Congratulations! Today is your Equal Pay Day. Equal Pay Day represents how far into the year groups need to work to earn what white, non-Hispanic men earned the previous year. In 2019, White women celebrated Equal Pay Day in April. Asian women celebrated it in March. Native women will celebrate it in […] Read more »
EOI Updates CEO pay swells as worker wages remain idle August 19, 2019 / October 9, 2026 by Economic Opportunity Institute Read more »
EOI Updates Young people are overworked, underpaid August 2, 2019 / October 9, 2026 by Economic Opportunity Institute Read more »
EOI Updates Young people can’t work their way into prosperity July 23, 2019 / October 26, 2026 by Sara Bekele Young people like me face an economy with rising income inequality, rising higher education costs, climbing student debt, and relatively stagnant wages. We’re also facing a workplace culture that expects us to be available for long hours, sometimes around the clock. Recent data show that the typical American works more than 8 hours during a […] Read more »
EOI Updates ‘We’re elated’: Suddenly the liberal dream of an income tax is tantalizingly real July 17, 2019 / October 9, 2026 by Economic Opportunity Institute Read more »
