Opportunity Washington: Priorities for Shared Prosperity is a roadmap for expanding Washington’s culture of opportunity to individuals, families, employers, and communities in every corner of the state. It is organized around three guiding priorities: ACHIEVE (education quality and outcomes), CONNECT (transportation reliability and efficiency ...

Opportunity Washington is a roadmap for expanding Washington’s culture of opportunity to individuals, families, employers, and communities in every corner of the state. It is based in research and informed by community input.

Welcome to the Washington Opportunity Scorecard! We’ve compiled independent data across 16 variables to score all 50 states based on performance against our core priorities of ACHIEVE, CONNECT and EMPLOY.

Across the nation – and in most of Washington – rural jobs are back. March 23, 2022. The jobs recovery continues. The Daily Yonder (that's their map above) reports, Both rural and urban America now have just about as many jobs as they did …

Stay current on what is happening in Olympia. Visit the Washington State Legislature to look up bills, track legislative activity, find out about upcoming hearings, comment on bills online, and more.

The economic costs of poor road conditions accrue broadly to Washington’s residents, businesses, and government. Reducing congestion, improving freight capacity, and enabling new growth would help make the state more competitive and make Washington a better place to live. The investment is past due. It’s time to act.

2017年2月16日 · Last November, a Washington Research Council special report examined the program, finding that Medicaid, through the state Health Care Authority (HCA), now provides health insurance for almost two million Washington state residents, and makes up over 16 percent of the state budget.

Opportunity Washington: Priorities for Shared Prosperity has made transportation funding a critical objective. Read our recent Action Alert and go to our Connect page for information on the precarious state of our vital transportation networks.

2018年7月13日 · A new report from the Washington Research Council takes a close look at Washington’s tax structure. It’s an important analysis that effectively debunks the often-repeated charges that our state’s “upside-down” tax system is the “most regressive” in the nation.

2021年6月23日 · While the issue may not be top-of-mind in Washington, where minimum wage hikes have become a settled issue in the state’s largest cities and embraced by voters statewide, the results of the research are nonetheless relevant.