5 ways to end youth homelessness
Ideas from last week’s National Alliance to End Homelessness conference. Read more
Community News
Kids write Santa this year for basic needs instead of toys
Santa Claus and his elves are seeing more heartbreaking letters this year as children cite their parents' economic troubles in their wish lists. Read more
Feeding hungry students pays off
Feeding students lunch, and increasingly breakfast, is a basic investment in making other tax dollars for education pay off. Read more
Billionaire pledge swells with Facebook's Zuckerberg
Seventeen more of America's richest people, including Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, have pledged to give the majority of their wealth to charity. They signed on to the Giving Pledge, the effort led by investor Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates to persuade the wealthiest people in the world to donate their fortunes Read more
Pre-K Saved from Drastic Cuts, in WA
Although the economic crisis has taken its toll on many state-funded services nationwide, most pre-kindergarten (pre-k) programs have been spared, according to a new report from the Pew Center on the States. Read more
Cities offer homeless free storage
Finding a place to safely leave possesions is one of the many challenges homeless people face each day. Read more
Household incomes down, and poverty up, survey finds
Household incomes shrank for a second year in 2009, while the ranks of people who are poor or just barely making it swelled. Income estimates out Tuesday from the American Community Survey, a wide array of census statistics reported annually, show the recession's effect on millions of families. Read more
Law Enforcement leaders- Quality early learning reduces crime
Recent studies show that at- risk children who attend high quality early learning programs are less likely to commit crimes as adults than similar children who do not. Read more
Invisible Families
"Invisible Families" is a multi-part series by The Seattle Times done in collaboration with neighborhood online news partners. This series takes a detailed look at the growing epidemic of family homelessness in our region. Read more
Quality early learning matters
The Wall Street Journal pointed to education as the single greatest statistical driver for economic opportunity and 90 percent of a person?s total brain development occurs by age 3. Read more
