With summer vacation upon us, teachers across America are scrambling to make ends meet. These are no longer the "off" months they were in years past. Now, teachers have to take side jobs to pay the bills. The data on pay rates is quite alarming. Teachers now make 24 percent less than the average ...

In a recent Op-Ed, Seattle native Timothy Egan wrote that President Trump has "declared war on Amazon, the nation’s second most valuable company." He pointed out the irony of the going after a company that is creating more jobs than all but a handful of American states. And of course almost ev...

When was the last time someone at work complained about getting "too much sleep?" We know the answer to that one: never. Over the past decade Fast Company has posted thousands of articles on every topic about productivity. The one issue that comes up more than any other is sleep. In fact, it lie...

Two weeks ago the Federal Jobs Report showed our economy to be in an unusual sweet spot, with steady growth and widespread improvement in the labor market. But how good are the numbers? An Op-Ed contributor to the New York Times wrote that the biggest question in evaluating the May jobs numbersÂ...

Washington State hopes to keep tolls as low as possible to avoid a mass diversion of cars through congested downtown Seattle streets, but still looks to raise enough money to cover the project's $200 million debt and operating costs. The leading proposal so far involves charging four different ra...

In recent months, a number of high-profile harassment incidents highlighted the problem of sexual assaults of airline passengers. Yet a new study shows that passengers aren't the only ones as risk: flight attendants also regularly experience sexual harassment and assault by passengers. In fac...

Amazon reports that its median employee pay last year was $28,446. That data, made public on Wednesday in the company's annual report, is a reminder that even though tech-workers and business managers at Amazon headquarters earn more than $100,000, across most of the country, Amazon offers blue-c...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is one of the most successful businessmen of all time. And the richest. He has amassed a fortune of more than $131 billion. This presents a dilemma. Bezos commands far more money than any one person could ever spend, and even more than any one family dynasty could spend. So...

Amazon executives recently toured Dallas, one of 20 finalists for a second company headquarters, and local officials bragged about its growing workforce and low taxes -- a perfect match for 50,000 planned Amazon jobs. But the local team also brought a surprising guest: the Reverend Neil Caza...

When President Trump scrapped the Iran nuclear deal and imposed sanctions earlier this week, Boeing’s prospective sale of $9.5 billion of jets to Iran Air effectively went up in smoke. Yet the outcome is more a lost opportunity than a blow to current plans for the Seattle-based aerospace giant...