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Cascadia Scorecard News--March 2007
Does raising the minimum wage hurts employment?; the car-less experiment one year later; Las Vegas and sprawl.
03/13/2007 Your Money or Your JobIt’s high times for the region’s economy, at least according to the standard gauges. Despite a recent decline, Northwest stocks are up. Our region’s GDP is up too. But other measures (including Sightline’s economic security index) show average northwesterners are no better off than they were a decade ago. With our economy on the line, can we trust the conventional wisdom about the trends and the cures? Sightline takes a look at the notion that raising the minimum wage hurts employment, and finds that the conventional wisdom comes up short. Read more. One Year Later: The car-less experiment A year has passed since the Durning family decided to go car-less for the next 365 days. In that time, they’ve reduced their driving by two-thirds, burned 80 percent less gasoline, and saved a heap of money. Find out what they’re going to do next.  And what was one of the most useful resources in their year of going car-less? Their substitute “trunk,” a ten-year-old bike trailer/stroller that carried dogs, a toilet tank, and groceries. Check out a pictorial ode to moving your stuff by bike.  Map of the Month: Preserving rural landAnd the winner is: Las Vegas? Out of 15 US cities studied by Sightline in our report The Portland Exception, Las Vegas had the highest percentage of residents living in compact communities. See the animated map comparisons. Read the report to find out how Las Vegas compares to Portland and Seattle. Please join Sightline on March 26 for a comedy benefit show! Our show last year was so much fun, we're doing it again! There will be an abundance of good laughs, and fifty percent of ticket proceeds will go to support Sightline’s work. The show starts at 8:30pm at Seattle’s Comedy Underground. Find out more. | |
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