From Sightline: "Research links high-quality early education with lifelong benefits: higher adult salary and education level, greater likelihood of owning a home, having a 401(k) and saving for retirement, as well as lower likelihood of teenage pregnancy, incarceration, tobacco use, and depression. Unfortunately in Seattle, the benefits of a top-notch elementary education are disproportionately available to children from white, English-speaking families with high incomes. ... More flexible zoning code could be one important tool in reversing segregation among Seattle’s public schools."
Underlining Like Mad #168: Most of it for Free
"Free parking represents a subsidy for older people that is paid disproportionately by the young and a subsidy for the wealthy that is paid by the poor..."
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Seattle's interminable conversation...
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Despite making housing affordability their political rallying point...
The Pedestrian Chronicles 