Over the past few years the minimum wage has been increasing do to Washington state initiative 1433 that was passed in 2016. It was made so minimum wage would increase every year until 2021 then after that a cost of living adjustment would play into effect for the minimum wage.  With the start of...

How do people feel about New Year resolutions? And how do they plan to accomplish them? Every year many people make a promise to change something about themselves or focus on something they want to stop doing. Unfortunately, around 9.3 million Americans — or 5.7% of all Americans  give up on completing...

On October 10th, 2019 Washington State banned flavored vape juice to the public because of a nationwide outbreak of lung issues related to e-cigarettes and vaping.  After the government announced that there was going to be a ban,  some people were going crazy and vape stores through Washington were...

Underage smoking has been a developing problem. There have been many cases of hospitalized teens from the effects of vaping. Since these stories of sick teens have hit the news, recent changes have been made to the age required to buy tobacco products. Changing the age from 18 to 21 was a month-long...

As the 2019 holiday shopping season came to a close, the shopping malls and department stores felt the strain of online traffic. The mall craze is dead in the center of large recessions, with retailers such as J.C. Penney announced store closures in over 2,100 locations.   Recent closures...