Unemployment in King County is the lowest it has been in years. Our economy seems to be booming. Yet thousands of working people still struggle to make ends meet. In King and Snohomish counties, 1 out of every 8 working adults is living in poverty.
Knowing that merely being employed does not mean you can meet your needs, the WDC focuses on self-sufficiency in our job training and employment programs. One of our chief tools is the innovative Self-Sufficiency Calculator.
WDC programs hlep the working poor along the continuum of self-sufficiency in partnership with many other networks of housing and social services in the community. This map of the continuum shows where employment services fit in the bigger picture.
