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State income tax as a percent of income for a married couple with $1.5 million, $2 million or $5 million of wages, in Washington (under the 2028 law), Oregon, California and Massachusetts.
Actual revenue divided by the official estimate for 18 comparisons across 10 state and local taxes on high incomes. Above 1 means revenue beat the estimate.
Net capital gains tax payments for each tax year as reported by the Washington Department of Revenue, as of June 9, 2026.
Projected value, in 2026 dollars, of the $1 million standard deduction in Washington's millionaires tax under the law's every-other-year inflation adjustment, compared with adjusting every year, assuming 2.5% inflation.
2026 contributions to No on 645, Vote Yes Repeal the Income Tax, and Let's Go Washington (which backs I-645 and two other measures), by donor group, as reported to the Washington Public Disclosure Commission through October 21, 2026.
Share of mainstream (58) and conservative (16) news stories about I-645, June 1 to Oct 21, 2026, that included each of seven key facts. Each fact is labeled with the campaign whose claims it rebuts.
Number of transfer lines moving money into Washington's general fund in the final operating-budget transfer section for each biennium, by kind of source account.
Gross income-tax collections projected by the ESSB 6346 fiscal note (March 2026), ERFC's June and September 2026 forecasts, and OFM's I-645 fiscal impact statement (July 2026), state fiscal years 2029-2035.
Taxable value as a percentage of base MSRP, by year of service, under the schedule Sound Transit uses now and under the 2006 schedule state law says replaces it after the pre-2015 bonds are repaid.
Seattle's JumpStart payroll tax revenue, the share budgeted to the City's General Fund, and the amount budgeted for affordable housing, by year.
Seattle's adopted JumpStart affordable housing budget compared with 62% of what the tax actually raised and 62% of the revenue the City expected in 2020.
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Permanent supportive housing beds for formerly homeless people in Seattle and King County, from the federal Housing Inventory Count, by year and by operator, with the beds in projects labeled clean and sober, and a comparison with King County's Oxford Houses.
Counts of Seattle Fire Department 911 dispatches coded as overdoses, by street address, from January 2023 through October 2026. Each address is matched to what is there, with a focus on permanent supportive housing buildings (apartments for formerly homeless people with on-site services). Also compares calls per 100 apartments in supportive housing with other large rental buildings.
Yearly counts of incidents the Seattle Fire Department dispatched as an illegal burn, a rubbish fire or an encampment fire, citywide from 2004 and for two central areas from 2015, counted from the city's public 911 dispatch log. Also the city's published counts of fires the fire department verified at tent and RV encampments, 2022 to June 2026.
The King County Medical Examiner's public count of deaths it investigated in 2025 among people whose presumed living situation was a housing service site (permanent supportive housing, income-restricted apartments and recovery housing), by manner of death. It is a countywide total; the dashboard gives no breakdown by building or provider.
How often Seattle's Unified Care Team (UCT), the city team that responds to homeless encampments, offered a shelter bed to people living outside, how often the offer was accepted, and how often it led to a confirmed shelter stay, by quarter and year from 2023 through June 2026, with the reasons people gave for turning offers down in the second quarter of 2026.
How much more a gallon of regular gasoline cost in Washington than the U.S. average each year from 2015 to 2026, split into Washington's higher state gas taxes, the estimated cost of its carbon market (the Climate Commitment Act, since 2023), and everything else.
Before-and-after measurements of testosterone, hemoglobin, muscle size, lean mass and strength in adult transgender women after about 12 months of hormone treatment, from the study groups in a 2021 systematic review, plus U.S. Air Force fitness-test results of transgender women before and up to 2.5 years into treatment.
How many more people moved into each state from other states than moved out, from July 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025, as a count and per 1,000 residents, from the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 population estimates. Covers the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
U.S. federal receipts by source and outlays by budget function for fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025), from the Monthly Treasury Statement, arranged as money flows into and out of federal spending. The deficit is shown as the borrowing that covered the gap.
Overdose deaths in King County, Washington, by the dead person's presumed living situation (private home; outdoors, shelter or vehicle; subsidized and supportive housing; other temporary stay) and by region, from the King County Medical Examiner, with HUD counts of supportive-housing beds and CDC state and national totals for comparison.
NOAA's official 1991–2020 climate normals for annual precipitation and the average number of days with measurable precipitation at the main weather station of 16 large U.S. cities.
How much oil the United States produced and used in 2025, from the Energy Information Administration's annual supply and disposition table, counted two ways: crude oil plus natural gas liquids such as propane, as EIA counts oil, and crude oil alone.
Measures of Washington's business climate compared with the U.S.: new business filings, business openings and closings, private job growth, tax and business rankings, business counts, very large worksites and their jobs, layoff notices filed with the state, and where 14 large Washington-based public companies list their headquarters.
