The bad news is, Washington’s terrific average pay is cold comfort for the 288,000 unemployed people in our state. True, employment is on the rise, and true, respected economists are saying that Washington is poised to lead the nation’s recovery from this recession. But you can’t feed a family with statistics. That requires a job.
Back to the good news: While the drama in Olympia was playing out around negotiations on an operating budget, Democrats managed to craft and pass bipartisan transportation and capital budgets that will, among other things, create and sustain tens of thousands of good jobs for out-of-work men and women, particularly in Washington’s hard-hit construction industry.
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