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Is the COVID-19 recession a prelude to major economic collapse?
Extreme financial risk-taking, combined with the effects of the pandemic, may spell disaster for the U.S. economy.
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Poll: Most Washington voters want to pause reopening economy
The latest Crosscut/Elway poll found 72% of Democrats and 23% of Republicans are worried about the state’s reopening. Some want to reimpose restrictions.
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The arts need a New Deal to survive the pandemic
FDR's plan put artists on the national payroll after the Great Depression. The COVID-19 recession demands a similar investment.
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What Seattle’s new payroll tax says about the city’s politics
Two years after the failed ‘head tax,’ the city council found a new path forward, without the same opposition.
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Looking back at the Great Recession from the eye of a pandemic
Can theories about the 2008 financial collapse shine a light on the COVID-19 slump?