6 Washington Ideas That Went National

$15 Minimum Wage Law

A local surge in the national Fight for 15 movement lifted the floor on workers’ pay here. Since 2014, Seattle’s been the test case for implementing a policy later adopted in cities like San Francisco and New York.

Buy Nothing

A 2010 epiphany on a plastic-covered beach turned Bainbridge Island friends Liesl Clark and Rebecca Rockefeller into the architects of a circular economy, where communities reduce waste by gifting it. One neighbor’s overripe banana is another’s banana bread.

Father’s Day

We can thank a mom for a holiday dedicated to dads. Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane petitioned to honor her single father with

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