The Center Square: Washington clearing backlogged unemployment claims as jobless residents set to see end to pandemic assistance

A 2018 study from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy further found Washington to have the most regressive tax system in the country.

Washington workers in the bottom 20th percentile can pay up to six times more in taxes as their wealthier peers because of how the state’s high gas and sales taxes disproportionately hits low-income earners harder, according to the study. Read more