Katie Wilson is being sworn in today as the fifty-eighth mayor of Seattle, following one of the closest and most ...

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Ms. Wilson, a self-described socialist, joined the race after Mayor Bruce Harrell opposed taxing high-income residents to finance construction of new housing. By Anna Griffin Reporting from Seattle ...

DETROIT (AP) — Global Citizen is turning to cities as it looks to break through what it sees as widespread political gridlock hindering large-scale action on its goal of ending extreme poverty ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mark Robert Rank, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis (THE ...

SEATTLE — For more than 30 years, FareStart has meant a new start for nearly 15,000 people working their way out of poverty. People like Sean Bates. "The warmth and the welcome of the people here in ...

Riko Niyomwungere was working multiple jobs to pay for college when he was selected to receive $500 a month with almost no strings attached. The cash allowed him to stop working, start paying off ...

High school students, having defended Hamas, have now turned their activism toward tackling period poverty fighting to support “menstruators in need” in Gaza and Seattle. It’s part of a menstrual ...

A Seattle-area lawmaker has introduced a new proposal aimed at banning cashless retailers. The proposal, introduced by Metropolitan King County Councilmember Jeanne Kohl-Welles, would require ...

12/5–12/11 • Seattle International Film Festival audiences will remember director Linas Phillips’ 2006 documentary, Walking to Werner, in which the filmmaker walked 1,200 miles from Seattle to Los ...