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The rise and dramatic fall of King County’s black homeowners
The Boeing Boom elevated the Seattle area’s black homeowners. The tech boom? Just the opposite, as the region’s rate of homeownership ranks among the lowest...
FYI Guy Gene Balk crunches the numbers. Gene has worked at The Seattle Times since 2002. He is a native of New Jersey, and earned a Master’s Degree in Library Science from Rutgers University. Before coming to The Times, he worked for the Orange County Register and the Baltimore Sun.
The Boeing Boom elevated the Seattle area’s black homeowners. The tech boom? Just the opposite, as the region’s rate of homeownership ranks among the lowest...
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For the first time, Seattle is adding more people on average each year than during the post-Gold-Rush boom years. We’ve never grown this fast, and...
New Census Bureau data show nearly 36 percent of the state’s registered voters who did not cast a ballot sat out because they didn’t like...
A wave in white, blue-collar voters never materialized in Washington in the 2016 presidential election. But the bump in college-educated whites could have helped Hillary...
For the first time since at least 1970, the percentage of Seattle households that own a car is declining. Census data show it’s all because...
Only Washington, D.C., has a higher concentration of workers who sit for five or more hours a day. “It’s a lot of sitting,� a software...
A new nationwide study showed male doctors, across all medical specialties, make on average $90,000 more than their female counterparts.
In a hypercompetitive rental market, the city’s young people are on the move, looking for cheaper rent, a nicer place or somewhere close to work....
In Seattle’s massive economic and population boom this decade, the middle class has largely been left behind. Between 2010 and 2015, the number of Seattle...