Monica Nickelsburg
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Seattle lost 18,000 jobs last year as labor force in Tacoma, Bellevue grew (opens the original)
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Seattle’s workforce has shrunk by 18,605 jobs since 2024, according to a new report from the business and urban advocacy group, the Downtown Seattle Association. Over the same period, Bellevue added 5,375 jobs and Tacoma’s labor pool increased by 662. The organization says the largest job losses were in the information, technology, professional services, and construction sectors. “We're in a very different place than we were five, six, seven, eight years ago when Seattle was rocking and rolling
Microsoft lays off 268 Xbox employees in Washington state (opens the original)
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Microsoft is laying off 268 Xbox employees in Washington state. It’s part of a broader reduction in force affecting 500 to 600 workers, according to a company spokesperson. Microsoft will also reorganize several gaming studios within the Xbox business. The changes include bringing World's Edge, Rare, as well as the next Halo title under Activision's banner. The layoff is part of a previously announced 3,200-person downsizing in July. At the time, Xbox’s new CEO Asha Sharma said the business had
Gates Foundation launches $1B AI initiative (opens the original)
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The Gates Foundation plans to spend at least $1 billion over the next two years to get artificial intelligence tools in the hands of educators, healthcare workers, and farmers. The Seattle nonprofit founded by Bill and Melinda Gates announced the initiative Tuesday. It’s part of the foundation’s 10th annual Goalkeepers Report. “ We definitely never want to be pursuing a technology for the sake of the technology,” Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman said in an interview with KUOW. “We are interested
Seattle-area leaders launch partnership to fight economic decline (opens the original)
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Dozens of elected officials, business leaders, and economic development advocates gathered on Seattle’s waterfront Monday with a shared goal: to keep the region from slipping into economic decline. Led by the nonprofit Challenge Seattle, the leaders launched the new “Partnership for a Competitive Puget Sound.” The partnership is meant to be a unified voice across business and the public sector on economic development issues. Challenge Seattle CEO and former Gov. Christine Gregoire, along with ot
Did Amazon cause a baby boom in Seattle? (opens the original)
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For years, Seattle and Portland have wrestled for the title of “most childless city,” and that hasn’t changed. The share of Seattle’s population that’s under 18 is still smaller than almost any other major U.S. city. But over the past decade that share grew by 10%, even as most other big cities lost kids and the overall fertility rate declined, according to a new analysis from the Wall Street Journal. Why did Seattle swim against this child-free current? Some experts think Amazon’s meteoric rise
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