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How Does Worker Health and Safety Matter for Full Employment?
In this interview, Visiting Scholar Lola Loustaunau discusses her research with food processing workers in Oregon and Washington, how worker health and safety relates to full employment, ways to address barriers workers face, and COVID-19’s impact on workers in essential industries.
Publications
Community Development Research Briefs
Who Moved and Where Did They Go? An analysis of residential moving patterns in King County, WA between 2002–2017
This report describes residential moves by King County residents within the three-county Seattle metropolitan region in the Puget Sound from 2002 through 2017. Data from large individual-level data sets were analyzed for trends over 15 years to see how people in King County, Washington moved within the region, and compare trends by SES level and neighborhood/geography.
Data
2021 Small Business Credit Survey Reports: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington
Analysis of the performance, financing needs and options, and borrowing experiences of small businesses in five western states.
Initiatives
Investing in the Future of Child Care
Access to affordable child care is crucial to parents’ ability to participate in the workforce. However, in many places—especially lower-income communities and communities of color—affordable child care isn’t available to meet this need.
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We listen to our communities to better understand on-the-ground economic conditions throughout the Twelfth Federal Reserve District.
“Bouncing Forward” from Disasters on Hawaiʻi’s Big Island: Lessons for Equitable Recovery and Future Resilience
This report examines proactive disaster recovery planning and implementation on the island of Hawaiʻi and what community development professionals can learn from the regional equity approach planners and nonprofits used.
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