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The expansion of Medicaid and continued enrollment in the Children's Health Insurance Program have boosted the proportion of eligible kids with health coverage to 91 percent, a study finds.
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He was an accountant for Big Oil. Then came the cyclone of 1970. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed found a new calling — and came up with an idea that could be key to ending extreme poverty.
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Researchers at the University of Washington say they can use phone records to help humanitarian efforts in developing countries. The key is the different…
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The pictures show how the working poor eke out a living. And no, they are not depressing.
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Poor and minority students in Washington state are more likely to be labeled truants. That’s a according to the state’s 2015 Truancy Report out Wednesday.
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Low-income residents Washington state are disproportionately burdened by debt, according to a new report by the grassroots advocacy group Alliance for a…
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Learning how to budget and save is something everyone can benefit from, even people who barely have a penny to their name.That’s the idea behind so-called…
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The number of Americans living below the official federal poverty line stayed steady last year. That was a surprise to most experts, who predicted it…
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Food stamps are getting cut in half next week for many of Washington’s legal immigrants. They were cut to help balance the state’s budget.The food…
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Nearly one in six Americans lives in poverty, but the numbers are a little better in Northwest states. That's the headline from the latest population…