{"id":9490,"date":"2018-05-15T02:47:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T06:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=69c8cddd2514b947401c8aa225839ba8"},"modified":"2018-05-15T02:47:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T06:47:11","slug":"seattle-oks-tax-on-companies-like-amazon-to-help-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/15\/seattle-oks-tax-on-companies-like-amazon-to-help-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle OKs tax on companies like Amazon to help homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle&#8217;s largest businesses such as Amazon and Starbucks will have to pay a new tax to help fund homeless services and affordable housing under a measure approved by city leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council on Monday unanimously passed a compromise plan that taxes businesses making at least $20 million in gross revenues about $275 per full-time worker each year &#8212; lower than the $500 per worker initially proposed. The so-called &#8220;head tax&#8221; would raise roughly $48 million a year to build new affordable housing units and provide emergency homeless services.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon, Starbucks and other business groups harshly criticized the council&#8217;s decision after Monday&#8217;s vote.<\/p>\n<p>But others including worker and church groups cheered the decision as a significant step toward building badly needed affordable housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle&rsquo;s largest businesses such as Amazon and Starbucks will have to pay a new tax to help fund homeless services and affordable housing under a measure approved by city leaders. The City Council on Monday unanimously passed a compromise plan that taxes businesses making at least $20 million in gross revenues about $275 per full-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9491,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490\/revisions\/9491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}