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This photo shows a sign at the headquarters for Washington state’s Employment Security Department Tuesday, May 26, 2020, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Washington state’s rush to get unemployment benefits to residents who lost jobs due to the coronavirus outbreak left it vulnerable to criminals who made off with hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent claims. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW102

Millions of dollars from state's unemployment fraud loss likely won't be recovered

Washington state has recovered $380 million of the $650 million in jobless benefits fraudsters stole early in pandemic. Clawing back the remaining dollars is proving a difficult task.

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After Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant speaks at a press conference regarding her support for unions and asking Starbucks to stop union busting, Starbucks workers from Buffalo, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Seattle and others march in front of Starbucks headquarters Tuesday, January 25, 2022. They were chanting many things including, “Howard Schultz, you can’t hide. We can see your greedy side.” Sawant unveils a city council resolution in support of unions and announces new developments in the Seattle union movement. Councilmembers will vote on the resolution at their meeting Tuesday afternoon. 219422
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Employees at 2 more Seattle Starbucks locations plan to unionize

Fred Schwartz at home in Burlington, N.J., Dec. 15, 2021. Schwartz has income from a number of sources: Social Security Disability Insurance, his former employer’s long-term disability plan, and part-time work helping an accountant prepare tax returns. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times) XNYT68 XNYT68
Personal Finance

When a diagnosis demands a long-term money strategy

Wed. January 19, 2022. Shoppers launch right in after the opening ceremony at the new PCC in downtown Seattle. 219309
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PCC opening brings new hope to heart of Seattle VIEW

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Alaska airlines planes taxi and are boarded outside the newly renovated North Satellite at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Tuesday, May 25, 2021. The newly renovated North Satellite will fully open next month. The facility adds new gates, nearly double in size, open space and natural light, triple the restaurants and shops, Pacific Northwest inspired art and sustainability features including the use of collected rainfall. 217218
Boeing & Aerospace

Alaska Air ekes out a profit

In this Feb. 21, 2020 photo, reusable shopping bags are displayed inside an Amazon Go Grocery store set to open soon in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Following the opening of several smaller convenience-type stores using an app and cashier-less technology to tally shoppers’ selections, the store will be the first Amazon Go full-sized cashier-less grocery store. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Business

Amazon Go's new store format will launch in suburb north of Seattle

A Boeing 787 awaiting delivery is seen Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 in Everett at a foggy Paine Field. 14624158
Boeing & Aerospace

Boeing reports deep losses

A sign for Microsoft offices, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) NYBZ306 NYBZ306
Earnings

Microsoft profits up 21%

Boeing 737 MAX

Boeing engineer Joe Sutter, center, who is known as “the father of the Boeing 747,” poses for photos with Michael Teal, left, Boeing’s 747-8 chief project engineer, and Todd Zarfos, right, 747-8 engineering vice president, Sunday, March 20, 2011, at Boeing Field in Seattle, in front of the landing gear of a Boeing 747-8 airplane bearing Sutter’s initials, after the 747-8 made its first flight. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Former chief project engineer on 737 MAX retires from Boeing

FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson testifies during a House Transportation Committee hearing on the Boeing 737 MAX, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Democrats push FAA for action against certain Boeing 737 MAX employees

FAA Administrator Steve Dickson speaks at a U.S. Senate Commerce committee hearing Wednesday on the Implementation of Aviation Safety Reform.

FAA says Boeing is appointing people lacking expertise to oversee airplane certification

Just over seven weeks after it rolled out of the paint hangar, Boeing’s first 737 MAX “the Spirit of Renton” lifts off the runway and flew for the first time Friday, from Renton Municipal Airport at 9:48 a.m. January 29th, 2016.

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Technology

There couldn’t be a better time for wearable technology to shine. In the coronavirus era, we’re all concerned about our well-being. So wearable computers with tiny sensors that offer insight into our health seem particularly useful. (Glenn Harvey/The New York Times)

Oura Ring 3 review: A missed opportunity for wearable tech

Tech Reviews & Tips

“Burners” – or prepaid phones not tied to your name – as a last-ditch option for the privacy conscious. But you can also spin up virtual burner email addresses, phone numbers and credit card numbers online to stop companies from collecting and sharing your real information.(Dreamstime / TNS)

Burner phone numbers, email addresses and credit cards can help you dodge spam and data breaches. Here’s how

Real Estate

Screenshot from Zillow Digs, new home furnishing feature onZillow website.Credit: Zillow

Zillow ordered to pay $1.9 million in copyright case

Retail

FILE – Pro-union pins for Starbucks’ employees union election, Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)

Workers at four Michigan Starbucks stores join unionization movement

Maritime Industry

Fishing boat captain McKenna Peterson is also a professional big-mountain skier. “I’m motivated by adventure,” she says. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Washington's maritime industry is pushing to be more inclusive, welcoming

Boeing & Aerospace

The control tower is obscured by fog as flights remain cancelled at Paine Field, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 in Everett. 219421

FAA clears Verizon and AT&T to turn on more 5G cell towers

Amazon

FILE – In this March 4, 2018, file photo, then-MacKenzie Bezos arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has married a Seattle science teacher. Dan Jewett wrote in a letter to the website of the nonprofit organization the Giving Pledge, on Saturday, March 6, 2021, that he was grateful to be able to marry such a generous person and was ready to help her give away her wealth to help others. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

MacKenzie Scott cut Amazon stock worth $8.5 billion last year

Amazon’s start

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos in the basement launch site for his web venture. File Photo Jimi Lott 9/13/95 : AMAZON.COM’S JEFF BEZOS : INTERNET’S ULTIMATE CULT FIGURE : WHEN AMAZON.COM WAS JUST A FLEDGLING BUSINESS, JEFF BEZOS POSED WITH A CART OF BOOKS IN THE BASEMENT FROM WHICH THE BUSINESS WAS LAUNCHED. NOW, THE COMPANY SELLS ALL KINDS OF PRODUCTS AND BEZOS IS A BILLIONAIRE. (2 OF 2)

Store on internet is open book — Amazon.com boasts more than 1 million titles on web | From the archives

Microsoft

Bill and Melinda Gates in 2018. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which focuses on global health and development, and on education in the United States, has given out more than $50 billion in grants in 135 countries. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Daniel Berman

Gates Foundation adds billionaire, baroness to board in wake of Gateses' divorce

Economy

This photo shows a sign at the headquarters for Washington state’s Employment Security Department Tuesday, May 26, 2020, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Washington state’s rush to get unemployment benefits to residents who lost jobs due to the coronavirus outbreak left it vulnerable to criminals who made off with hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent claims. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW102

Millions of dollars from state's unemployment fraud loss likely won't be recovered

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Reshoring manufacturing might be Washington’s future

Money Makeovers

Teri Allen is hoping her finances will enable her to retire when she wants to. Photographed Wednesday, April 21, 2021 216947

She’s worked almost 40 years in one place. Now, can she retire before 65?

Personal Finance

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Markets

Improving your savings is likely to improve other key aspects of your life. (Dreamstime.com / TNS) Piggy bank oink

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Artificial Intelligence

A photo provided by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/Carnegie Mellon of a combat robotic vehicle at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, in 2008. A UN conference made little headway this week on limiting development and use of killer robots, prompting stepped-up calls to outlaw such weapons with a new treaty. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/Carnegie Mellon via The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY UN KILLER ROBOTS BY ADAM SATARIANO and NICK CUMMING-BRUCE and RICK GLADSTONE FOR DEC. 17, 2021. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED.

Killer robots aren’t science fiction; a push to ban them is growing

Local Business

Sabreena Kelly, a fulfillment associate at the Amazon fulfillment center in DuPont, WA, works in the pick area on Monday, July 3, 2017. Merchandise in the big bins behind Kelly is delivered by KIVAs, Amazon’s robots. The KIVAs weigh 800 pounds each and can carry up to 3,000 pounds of merchandise. Story about how humans leverage robots all across Amazon

New bill in WA Senate targets quotas for warehouse workers

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Vice President Rachel Zsembery at the design firm Bergmeyer, arranges lighting for zoom meetings, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, at the company’s offices, in Boston. To reduce the risk of spreading the coronavirus, the firm implemented one-way routes throughout the office, added higher cubicle walls, requires masks when not at the desk, added hand sanitizer stations and put in lots of signs to make sure rules are clear. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

How to sound better on your next Zoom (or Skype or Google Meet) call

Agriculture

Blue skies and light clouds stand over a flooded roadway, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, near Everson, Wash. An atmospheric river, a huge plume of moisture extending over the Pacific and into Washington and Oregon, caused heavy rainfall in recent days, bringing major flooding in the area. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) WAET119 WAET119

Western Washington dairies run low on feed for cows after flooding

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