Seattle-area prices are rising faster than Washington incomes
One-year percent change in Seattle-area consumer prices and in Washington personal income, total and per person, with the state's November 2026 forecast for the full year.
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Washington tax packages as a share of general-fund revenue
New state general-fund revenue from each session's tax bills as a percent of general-fund revenue for the two-year budget period they were enacted.
Washington tax packages by session, in 2025 dollars
New state general-fund revenue from each session's tax bills in the two-year budget period they were enacted, adjusted to 2025 dollars.
Same Washington tests, two cut lines: Level 2+ vs Level 3+, spring 2024
Share of Washington students reaching Level 2 or higher and Level 3 or higher on the spring 2024 state tests in reading and writing (English language arts) and math.
Washington school money per student after inflation, 2015-16 to 2024-25
Per-student General Fund spending from all sources, and state plus local revenue alone, in 2024-25 dollars, adjusted with national and with Seattle-area consumer prices.
Projected paid leave premiums vs. costs at the 1.2% cap, 2026-2029
The Washington Employment Security Department actuary's November 2025 projection of Paid Leave premiums against benefits and other costs, by year, once the rate reaches its 1.2% legal maximum.
Washington paid leave premium rate, 2019-2027
The total premium for Washington's Paid Family and Medical Leave program, as a percent of wages, from its start in 2019 to 2027, when it reaches the 1.2% legal maximum.
3% of Washington's climate-project money bought cuts at or below the carbon price
Cumulative share of fiscal year 2025 Climate Commitment Act spending, and of projected lifetime emission cuts, from projects costing up to each amount per ton. 567 line items with estimates, from the Department of Ecology's revised March 2026 report.
Dams and wind each added about 2 million MWh for Washington customers in 2022
Change from 2021 to 2022 in electricity sold to Washington customers, by source, in millions of megawatt-hours, from the Department of Commerce fuel mix.
Washington's emissions vs. a straight-line path to the 2030 limit
Washington's yearly greenhouse gas emissions, 1990-2022, beside a straight line from the 2020 limit (93.1 million metric tons) to the 2030 limit (51.2).
Share of Seattle LEAD and control participants arrested, before and after entry
Percent of people in Seattle's LEAD diversion program and in a system-as-usual control group with at least one arrest before and after entering the University of Washington evaluation, October 2009 to July 2014.
Washington's overdose death rate stayed low until 2019, then passed the nation's
Age-adjusted drug overdose death rates per 100,000, Washington and the United States, 2014-2024 (CDC final data).
Seattle schools spending per student, before and after inflation
Seattle Public Schools general fund spending per student each school year from 2013-14 to 2024-25, in actual dollars and in 2024-25 dollars adjusted with Seattle-area consumer prices.
Where Seattle schools' added spending went, 2013-14 to 2024-25
Change in Seattle Public Schools general fund spending by program group between 2013-14 and 2024-25, in actual dollars.
Net $200,000-plus tax filers moving to Washington
Tax returns with adjusted gross income of $200,000 or more that moved into Washington, minus those that moved out, by IRS filing-year pair, 2011-12 to 2022-23.
Average income of households leaving and moving to Washington
Average adjusted gross income (AGI) per tax return of households that moved out of and into Washington from other states, by IRS filing-year pair, 2011-12 to 2022-23.
How much more leavers earn than arrivals: Washington and six states
Percent by which the average income (AGI per tax return) of households leaving each state exceeded that of households arriving, 2011-12 to 2022-23, for Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Texas, Florida and Arizona.
Election Day gas prices, at the time and after inflation, 1976-2026
U.S. average price of regular gasoline just before each national Election Day, in dollars of the day and in September 2026 dollars.
Seattle median household income after inflation, 2015-2025
Median household income for Seattle city and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area, in 2025 dollars using the Seattle-area CPI.
Change in Seattle's real median income, with margin of error
Change in Seattle city median household income in 2025 dollars (Seattle-area CPI) over several periods, with 90% intervals from the Census margins of error.
Seattle Times I-638 departures in its own voice favored No 28 to 1; unchecked quotes split 3 to 4
Departures from the record in The Seattle Times' I-638 news coverage, January 2025 to October 30, 2026, by type and by the side each favored. The three own-voice types favor No 28 to 1; quotes the paper printed unchecked split about evenly, 3 No to 4 Yes.
California's Medicaid spending grew fastest of its peers
Growth in total Medicaid spending after inflation, FY2013 to FY2024.
California's school spending per pupil grew about twice as fast as peers'
Nominal growth in current spending per pupil, FY2013 to FY2024.
Mississippi's 4th-grade reading rose above the nation's; California's was flat
NAEP grade 4 reading average scale scores, 2013 and 2024.