Rian Watt is the executive director of the Economic Opportunity Institute, an independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit 501(c)3 research and advocacy organization dedicated to making 51³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø a national model of economic opportunity.
The definition of insanity, the aphorism goes, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. In the wake of the Great Recession, 51³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø’s state Legislature gathered in Olympia to craft a budget. Because of our overreliance on sales taxes for state revenue, lawmakers faced cratering funding for public needs as […]
