A new survey of more than 10,000 unionized Kroger grocery workers in the Western United States finds that 78% sometimes struggling to afford basic necessities like food and shelter. Here the Ballard Fred Meyer is seen. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)
A new survey of more than 10,000 unionized Kroger grocery workers in the Western United States finds that 78% sometimes struggle to afford basic necessities like food and shelter. Here, the Ballard Fred Meyer is seen. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)
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Tuesday, Januarey 18, 2022. A drone look at the hillside and landslide area where a Bellevue Home slid off it’s foundation from a water main break. Forest Ridge School’s parking lot is right above the home. 219358
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FILE – A man carries a beverage as he walks out of a Starbucks coffee shop, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in New York. Companies that would be affected by a Biden administration vaccine-or-testing requirement for workers remain on the sidelines while the Supreme Court considers whether the rule can be enforced. Since then, Starbucks has announced its own vaccine mandate saying in Dec. 2021, that all U.S. workers must be fully vaccinated by Feb. 9, 2022, or face a weekly COVID testing requirement. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) NYPH301 NYPH301
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A cormorant dries its wings on a buoy in Lake Washington near Seward Park. Mt. Rainier can be seen in the background. Rain is expected through Thursday, but it should be dry Friday and through next week. Tuesday, January 18, 2022. 219316
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FILE – In this March 11, 2019, file photo, wreckage is piled at the crash scene of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 near Bishoftu, Ethiopia. The year since the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max has been a journey through grief, anger and determination for the families of those who died, as well as having far-reaching consequences for the aeronautics industry as it brought about the grounding of all Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 jets, which remain out of service. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File) NAI102
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Survivor services advocate Asha Potter looks at clothes to give to participants of the Holiday Shop event at the LifeWire office in Bellevue on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. LifeWire is an organization that offers support services from domestic violence survivors. During the holidays LifeWire has their Holiday Shop event through donation allow survivors to choose from an array of toys, warm clothing and household items. Due to the pandemic, the Holiday Shop event has gone virtual. 219017
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Blandy Inzunza, a 22-year-old Seattle University student, poses with her two children, Kaelani, 7, (l) and Mia, 3 (turns 4 on Dec. 10) in the Student Center on the S. U. campus Friday, December 3, 2021. Blandy has gotten help from Treehouse since she was a teenager in foster care. She is the only one of eight siblings to have graduated from high school, and says she would not have done so with Treehouse’s support. The organization now helps her with groceries, gas, clothes and moral support as she takes pre-med classes at Seattle University. 218958
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Maxim Isaev plays around with his five-month-old son Adam in the kitchen of the family’s Bothell home Friday, November 26, 2021. He, his wife and their two young children are a family of asylum-seekers from Chechnya. They live in a transitional shelter provided by Hopelink. They’re unable to work because of their immigration status and they don’t have health insurance — Hopelink fills in the gaps. 218911
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They fled their home country, and found housing and help for their son in King County

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FILE – In this April 23, 2021, file photo Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File) NYNYT301 NYNYT301

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In a family photo from 1965 displayed in Philadelphia, Edward White poses with his son, Hasan, and Hasan’s mother, Josaphine Hobbs. In two recent meetings, the family of Edward White, who, unarmed and without a police record, was shot at age 18 and left to die in the street, met in person for the first time with his killer, who was himself a teenager at the time and is now an executive at Nike: Larry Miller. (Kriston Jae Bethel/The New York Times)

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FILE – Registered nurse Jessalynn Dest pulls on a new N95 mask as indentations remain from another she had just removed after leaving a COVID-19 patient room in the acute care unit of Harborview Medical Center, Jan. 14, 2022, in Seattle. The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to Americans starting next week, now that federal officials are emphasizing their better protection against the omicron variant of COVID-19 over cloth face coverings. The White House announced Wednesday that the masks will come from the government’s Strategic National Stockpile, which has more than 750 million of the highly protective masks on hand. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) WX101 WX101

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Daniel J. Evans, Seattle, State Representative; Republican nominee for governor Evans Prefers ‘Gov. Dan’ Washington’s governor-elect Thursday solved one of his weightier problems: It will be Gov. Dan Evans, not Gov. Daniel J. Evans said he preferred use of the less formal name in the news media. Credit: Robert Heilman,. 1964

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Washington athletic director Jen Cohen speaks during a news conference about football head coach Chris Petersen’s decision to resign, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in Seattle. Petersen unexpectedly resigned at Washington on Monday, a shocking announcement with the Huskies coming off a 7-5 regular season and bound for a sixth straight bowl game under his leadership. Petersen will coach Washington in a bowl game, his final game in charge. Defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake is being promoted to head coach. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) OTK

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Washington’s Nate Roberts puts on the emphatic jam as the Huskies become the aggressors to strt the game against Cal. The bucket gave Washington a quick 4-0 lead on the Golden Bears. The California Golden Bears played the University of Washington in NCAA Men’s basketball Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at Alaska Airlines Arena, in Seattle, WA. 219287
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Russell Wilson takes a victory lap around State Farm Stadium after the Seahawks defeated the Arizona Cardinals 38-30 i the season finale The Seattle Seahawks played the Arizona Cardinals in the regular season finale for both teams Sunday, January 9, 2022 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ. 219255
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First time on skis, Sujal Bhandari gets instructions in bending and learning control from John Thomsen at the Mini Mountain Indoor Ski Center in Bellevue. They’re on an angled moving carpet controlled by Thomsen. Sujal is seven. Ref to more photos online Indoor ski lessons on a moving carpet at Mini Mountain in Bellevue. LO linesonly Saturday January 8, 2020 219275
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