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  • 1 week ago | m.kuow.org | Monica Nickelsburg |Joshua McNichols |Lucy Soucek |Alec Cowan

    Washington state is known for its cherries. We produce more sweet cherries than any other state in the country, and we export them all over the world. But to supply the world with cherries, Washington farmers need a lot of workers to show up for a very short harvesting window. Usually they do, but not this year. High profile ICE raids are keeping migrant workers from the fields. Today, how a culture of fear is pushing Washington cherry growers to the brink.

  • 2 weeks ago | m.kuow.org | Monica Nickelsburg |Joshua McNichols |Lucy Soucek |Alec Cowan

    After years of heated arguments, Seattle just passed a law allowing up to four houses per residential lot -- and six, in some cases.  The hope is that building a lot more homes will keep prices from becoming dramatically more expensive than they are now. But there’s a tradeoff. Togain more housing, we’re going to lose something else people care a lot about: trees. On the latest episode of Booming, could there be a way to have both?

  • 1 month ago | m.kuow.org | Monica Nickelsburg |Joshua McNichols |Lucy Soucek |Alec Cowan

    It's graduation season. When today’s grads started college four years ago, an entry-level job in tech was a sure bet. Now, it's anything but. And it's not just tech. Internship openings across the country are the lowest they've been in 6 years. On today's episode, entry-level jobs are supposed to be the first rung of the career ladder. So why is that ladder breaking? And is there anything that new grads hoping to enter the workforce can do about it?

  • 1 month ago | m.kuow.org | Joshua McNichols |Lucy Soucek |Alec Cowan |Carol Smith

    In Seattle's Central District, the number of Black homeowners has reached a historic low. And across Seattle, less than half as many Black households own homes as white families. But there's a new law that could help turn that around. The law expands the Covenant Home Ownership program, a state program that helps first-time Black and other marginalized home buyers cover their down payments and closing costs.

  • 2 months ago | kuow.org | Joshua McNichols |Monica Nickelsburg |Lucy Soucek |Carol Smith

    If you've got tariff whiplash, you're not alone. The Trump administration's on-again, off-again tariffs are meant to protect domestic businesses and bring industry back to the US. So tariffs should be good for the iconic local industries we're so proud of here in the Pacific Northwest...right? On today's episode we'll dig into three of these Northwest industries: salmon, craft breweries, and aerospace parts, to see how they could be affected by rising tariffs.

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