A key deadline is just days away for families eligible for cash to help raise their children. Congress passed an enhanced child tax credit in the American Rescue Plan, but you must file your taxes on time by next Monday if you want to get the money in July.
A visit to the White Center Food Bank shows how the fallout from the pandemic is far from over.
We met Vianey Romero picking up… Read more »
KING COUNTY, Wash. — After many years of dormancy, and many more in development, The Lodge at Saint Edward State Park in Kenmore has opened its doors, again.
It's the same building that housed the St. Edward Seminary until 1976. The 326 acre land was sold to the state a year later and became the Saint Edward State Park. Since that time, the building has been vacant and is now… Read more »
The news: ShakeAlert, an automated system designed to warn people that an earthquake has occurred and shaking is imminent, is being activated in Washington state today to complete a West Coast rollout of the technology.
How it works: The alert system, operated by the U.S Geological Survey in cooperation with the University of Washington-based Pacific Northwest Seismic Network,… Read more »
Child poverty has been a pervasive issue in the United States as nearly 11 million children are considered poor. That's one in seven children. Rising costs of living — from basic necessities, like rent and groceries, to transportation and childcare — coupled with stagnating wages are putting more children and their families below the poverty line.
COVID-19 has made it… Read more »
Parents would receive monthly checks, even after this year is over, under President Joe Biden’s forthcoming multitrillion-dollar plan for American families.
If made permanent, the payments could amount to one of the most consequential policy changes of Biden’s presidency, finally bringing the U.S. into the ranks of other advanced nations that pay parents a monthly child… Read more »
A group of House Democrats have introduced a bill to permanently expand the child tax credit and want to see it as part of President Joe Biden's recovery plan, a new marker that could complicate the passage of the bill.
The push over the child tax credit is the latest in a high stakes negotiation over the President's bill and is just the most recent example of a place where… Read more »
The first thing you should know about HIPAA is that it’s HIPAA, not HIPPA. There is only one P, and that P doesn’t stand for “privacy.”
“People make up what that acronym stands for,” Deven McGraw, co-founder and chief regulatory officer of the medical records platform Ciitizen and former deputy director for health information privacy at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)… Read more »
It’s one of the hottest topics in tech, but despite broad agreement about the importance of online privacy, the United States has yet to pass comprehensive, modern, federal legislation that addresses the issue. U.S. Rep Suzan DelBene, a Democrat from Washington state, wants to change that.
“Technology has created incredible new opportunities, but our laws have not kept up,” she says. “So… Read more »
We’ve all done it — downloaded a new app on our phone, been prompted with an overwhelming and confusing Terms and Conditions pop-up, and immediately clicked “I Agree” and moved on without thinking what hitting that button means.
The fact is every time we log on to the internet or use an app, our data is at the whim of the company, and there is largely no accountability for how a… Read more »
Millions of Americans streaming through retail pharmacies to receive Covid vaccines have no choice but to hand over their personal information to those companies, raising red flags for privacy watchdogs who are pressing for oversight of how the pharmacies may use the data bonanza to boost their profits.
Pharmacy chains like CVS Health, Walgreens, Rite Aid and others are playing an… Read more »
