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Opinion: Welcome news – A state payroll tax that harms many workers will decrease, not increase, in 2024
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center states: ‘Better than continuing to administer a costly program that decreases workers’ wages, of course, would be r…
Opinion: California is raising the minimum wage
Mark Harmsworth of the Washington Policy Center says Washington only needs to look to California as an example of what happens when politicians pass laws that dest…
Opinion: Nurse Licensure Compact puts Washington state patients in safer position
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center believes increasing patients’ access to care is good policy. So is making it possible for workers to carry their sk…
Opinion: Case builds for WA’s ‘Two-Faced Tax’ to be decided by SCOTUS
David Boze of the Washington Policy Center shares an editorial from the Wall Street Journal that provides a ‘scathing analysis’ of Washington’s income tax on…
Opinion: ‘What is school choice?’
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center says school choice has one goal: to put the learning needs of children over the career desires of adults.
Opinion: Government inflation continues to hammer workers’ paychecks
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center believes we need to privatize workers’ compensation and repeal PFML and WA Cares to help workers keep more of their…
Opinion: State agencies can rehire workers terminated for lack of a COVID-19 vaccine
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center states that the governor’s vaccine mandate brought no demonstrable public health benefit, while harming individuals…
Opinion: School officials are misleading voters about the real cost of proposed school construction bonds
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center states that school officials should be required to provide the public with true and complete information about the…
Opinion: Free-market health care innovations should be used to make lives better, not expand government power
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center believes congressional and state policymakers need to find constructive solutions to concerns over new technologies…
Opinion: Portland’s Clean Energy Fund might be the worst climate program in the country
Todd Myers of the Washington Policy Center addresses the question of whether government climate expenditures are designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions o…
Opinion: Governor Inslee is right to support individual tutoring to help students make up for COVID learning loss
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center believes Washington lawmakers should now consider giving parents access to regular education funding.
Opinion: College-degree requirement can limit qualified applicants
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center believes state hiring should be based on the skills and abilities needed for the position, without automatically ex…