On May 5, 2020, King County entered Phase 1 of the governor’s “Safe Start Washington” recovery plan. As the county reopens, we continue to monitor the economic impacts of COVID-19 mitigation on our communities, using clues from call volume data from King County’s Crisis Connections’ 2-1-1 line.
Read MoreLearn more about community data and evaluation workshops Communities Count staff will be holding in 2020.
Read MoreIn King County, 1 in 5 adults was not born in the U.S. In light of the President’s executive orders regarding federal immigration laws, many in our immigrant and refugee communities are uncertain about the extent to which local governments cooperate with federal immigration agents.
Read MoreWhen we seek deep knowledge about low-income communities in our region, where do we turn? If King County is anything like Boston, new research by sociologist Jeremy Levine suggests that nonprofit community-based organizations may have “superseded elected officials as legitimate representatives of poor urban neighborhoods.”
Read MoreIn his annual State of the County address, King County Executive Dow Constantine introduced Best Starts for Kids, a 6-year, levy-funded project that, if approved by voters, will implement proven and promising strategies to help children reach their full potential.
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