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State is gathering stories about long-term care
The WA Cares Fund is looking for “care” stories. A recent email asks, “Do you have personal or professional experience caring for an older adult who needs help with daily activities like eating, bathing, getting around the house, grocery shopping, and taking medication? We want to hear your story to help raise awareness about the need for long-term care!”
Raising awareness is fine. Long-term care is needed at some point by many people. But is that what the state is doing?
Read the entire blogAfter 2 months, The Seattle City Council might reverse course on food delivery fees
The PayUp legislation passed by the Seattle City Council in 2022 set the minimum wage for food delivery workers, working for organizations such as Grubhub and Uber Eats, at $17 per hour. Now, with a consumer backlash against the new charges, falling sales and tax revenue, the City of Seattle is reconsidering the controversial new law.
Read the entire blogWe can draw a picture of food systems during National Ag Week
It is National Agriculture Week (this year, March 18-22). The recent U.S. Census of Agriculture data suggests agriculture is not at the forefront of most people’s thoughts these days.
Yet, maybe, the trouble is one of connecting the dots.
Food is personal. What we eat; how, when, even why we eat is personal. Yet, food originates in agriculture. The line between the agriculture dot and the food dot is sometimes a broken one. It is a line we need to try to fill in.
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