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About 300 young adults leaving foster care in California will now receive a monthly check to help them make ends meet, part of the state's first guaranteed income program. Some 150 people in Ventura will receive $1,000 a month and another 150 in San Francisco will receive $1,200 dollars a month, with no strings attached. Sen. ...
Minnesota announced this week it has joined a multistate lawsuit against Facebook's parent company Meta, over claims of addictive social media features harming teens. It coincides with growing research about teens and gambling. Serena King, professor and chair of psychology at Hamline University, has been working with the Minnesota Alliance on Problem Gambling to analyze results from the most recent Minnesota Student Survey while the legal action plays out. ...
October is Financial Planning Month and an engaging event is helping high schoolers think about their money managing futures. More than 90 "Bite of Reality" fairs have reached 9,000 students across the west, including in Washington state. Sarae Bay, manager with the GoWest Foundation, an organization that works with credit unions in the region and sponsors the fairs, said during the events, each student is assigned a persona. ...
Skills for reducing violence are becoming essential in schools. At the beginning of the school year, students at a Washington state high school participated in a workshop aimed at doing that. The Alternatives to Violence Project mostly works in jails and prisons around the world. ...
listen live watch live The study found Amazon will have approximately 500 employees coming and going per shift, and approximately 500 trucks going in and out of the facility over the course of a 24-hour period. Gorden said employee load would not be a huge draw on the transportation system because County Road 20, also known as 40th Avenue North, can handle 10,000 to 12,000 cars per day. Roger Kluck, the city’s project manager for street work, said a combination of widened roads and added turn lanes should be enough to accommodate the extra traffic for now. “It’s going to be a good first...