What’s New at WDC
News, success stories, and important updates from across our programs, partners, and communities.
Annual Report 2022–2023
WDC's annual report for July 2022 – June 2023: program results, partner highlights, and the year in workforce development across Seattle-King County.
Annual Report 2021–2022
WDC's annual report for July 2021 – June 2022: 39,701 job seekers and 2,138 businesses served, participant stories, and program highlights.
Statement for Annual Report 2020-2021
We have been on a long and trying road together in the nearly two years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Take a deep breath—this is one of the most extraordinary times in our history, and the disproportionate racial impact on the community has been heartbreaking. At the risk of stating the obvious, we must get the pandemic under control to ease the suffering. But let us be real with you: our vision of an equitable workforce system centering racial equity is incompatible with the pre-pandemic status quo.
From Response to Recovery
COVID-19 is a wakeup call for our region. We must address long-standing racial inequities as we respond to the crisis.
In Program Year 2019 (July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020) we served 41,069 people, including 1,365 young people (age 16-24). We also served 1,735 businesses, including 413 we had not worked with before. Those numbers only hint at the unthinkable challenges our communities and systems faced this year—a global pandemic that took lives and upended livelihoods and had an unequal impact on Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), and immigrants and refugees. From infection rates to employment rates, those most at risk were most impacted.