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Amid sharp criticism over how it treats its employees, Amazon is looking to fill nearly 55,000 open corporate and tech positions globally, including 40,000 in the U.S., the company announced Wednesday in the lead-up to its annual Career Day event for prospective job applicants.

Amazon’s hiring spree is concentrated in Seattle, where the company, Washington state’s largest private employer, has nearly 12,500 open roles, more than in any other city. An Amazon spokesperson said that the open positions in Seattle are a combination of new roles and backfills for attrition and transfers out of the city.

Trailing Seattle are Arlington, Virginia, where Amazon has roughly 2,600 open jobs at its second headquarters, and Bellevue, where the company lists roughly 1,500 open tech and corporate positions. Amazon has said it expects to locate 25,000 employees in Bellevue within four years.

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https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-looks-to-hire-12500-corporate-and-tech-employees-in-seattle-more-than-in-any-other-city/
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The divorce rate in the United State dropped about 20% over the last decade, according to data from the latest U.S. Census.

But what about during the COVID-19 pandemic? Did the added stress affect marriages? Have divorce rates actually risen since the coronavirus entered our lives?

To find out, KING 5 combed through the last 20 months of caseloads in Washington State’s Superior Courts where divorces are processed.

We found dissolutions, which is the legal term for divorce filings, did go up in Washington state in spring 2021. But that's probably not because of the stress of the pandemic.

"There's a very pronounced seasonal pattern to divorce,” explained Julie Brines, a sociologist at the University of Washington with a Ph.D. from Harvard. “[Divorce filing] happens to peak in March, pretty consistently throughout the country, and then dips fairly dramatically in April. There also tends to be another peak in August and September, right after the summer vacation period."

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https://www.king5.com/article/news/verify/verify-covid-pandemic-divorce-rates/281-fbfb42d3-789b-4f4f-8106-8d73e619e54b
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“We continue to see more victims being shot each year,” Interim Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz said.

A few Seattle leaders held a news conference Tuesday morning to address the recent surge in gun violence. This conference came after six shootings took place across Seattle over the weekend, one of which left two people dead at a North Seattle apartment building. But Diaz says that’s just the latest in what’s been a disturbing trend.

“So far, year to date, there have been over 100 additional shootings compared to the same time last year in 2020,” Diaz said.

Officers are digging in to these investigations, but the big spike in shootings combined with the loss of nearly 300 officers makes it a struggle.

Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW, and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic.

https://crosscut.com/news/2021/09/king-countys-rise-gun-violence-doesnt-have-easy-explanation
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The investment form in a report, said as many as 750,000 households could face eviction before the end of the year —and that as many as 3.5 million households nationwide are behind in their rent payments.

At this point, the only thing stopping that would be an eviction moratorium from Congress, which has been hesitant to agree to such a policy so far. The Biden Administration ordered one previously, but that was overturned by the Supreme Court over the weekend. Many state-level eviction bans are also set to expire soon.

While the government has taken steps to make it easier for renters at risk to receive funds from the Emergency Rental Assistance program, it’s unlikely that money will arrive in time for thousands of families.

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When Rebecca DiLorenzo’s landlord of 14 months informed her that he would be raising the rent by $300 a month on the apartment in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, she shares with her fiancé, Kyle, she started to look around for a place to buy. 

“Our mindset last spring was, ‘We’re getting married, we need to buy a house’ and for a while we were going to open houses every weekend, but the market was just getting crazier and crazier,” she said.

After getting outbid on four houses — by as much as $50,000 — DiLorenzo knew they needed a Plan B. “We didn’t want to stay in our rental because it would have cost almost double what a mortgage would have been, but we also didn’t want to buy a house we really couldn’t afford,” she said.

Priced out of both the sales and rental market, the soon-to-be newlyweds are now living with family until things settle down.

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https://news.yahoo.com/americans-are-stuck-in-housing-limbo-173106061.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAH0mi_gI-hBOEFzjci2RomTKANPdv1dTUjKrmLD3PbaRdxi1vAmUbhhocSvxbM4iqi7idNt7JrijX5AhGMvc_1ruwI1-8PKdQlERW7DYQ9YmxVFtxljyTejBOdXgwBZTDOl90EjXhmW2Rt8wzP5bDn_kMXux7Yk5imwZjm1VUVrK
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Seattle police are investigating multiple weekend shootings that left two people dead, at least two people wounded and sent officers seeking suspects in neighborhoods across the city.

This continues the 2021 trend of increased gunfire, including five shootings earlier in the week. In one of these, police say two teenagers shot at each other outside a Southeast Seattle school. There were 420 cases of gunfire in Seattle last year, and 370 so far in 2021, far higher than normal, interim police Chief Adrian Diaz said Saturday.

Two people died Saturday in the Lake City neighborhood, where dispatchers received a 911 call a few minutes before 4 p.m., in the 3000 block of Northeast 140th. Police found the two people dead of apparent gunshot wounds inside an apartment. A spokesperson said the fired shots endangered people in nearby units.

Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW, and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/police-report-several-overnight-shootings-across-seattle/
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