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J.B. Wogan

Staff Writer

J.B. Wogan -- Staff Writer. J.B. covers public programs aimed at addressing poverty and writes the monthly human services newsletter. He has also written for PolitiFact, The Seattle Times and Seattle magazine. He is the co-author of Peak Performance: How Denver's Peak Academy is saving millions of dollars, boosting morale and just maybe changing the world. (And how you can too!)

In 2010, the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association named him "News Writer of the Year" for his work at The Sammamish Review, a community weekly east of Seattle. J.B. is a graduate of Pomona College and has a master's in public policy from Johns Hopkins University. 

Thanks to a change in federal law, states are moving away from stringent reporting requirements that can keep low-wage parents from working.
But a new effort could provide a true count of the number as well as insights into why they became homeless in the first place.
Patients with mental illness are being detained in emergency rooms, often for weeks at a time. Now some states are rethinking the entire psychiatric care system.
Like many cities, Mobile, Ala., didn't even know how many blighted properties it had. Instagram offered a cheap and simple way to start figuring that out.
Three cities, one county and a state have suspended laws that hamper their ability to address homelessness. But why now and what does it mean?
Voters in Washington state increased the penalties for trafficking animals or parts of animals that are at risk of becoming extinct.
Voters made Texas the 19th state to add legal protections for hunting and fishing, which are now also the preferred methods for controlling wildlife.
In Maine on Tuesday, voters strengthened the public campaign financing system that became a model for other states and helped the legislature become the nation's most blue-collar.
While other cities try to regulate or ban panhandlers, Albuquerque, N.M., offers them an income and social services for the day.
Texas used to force many elected officials to live in the state's capital city. Voters repealed that rule Tuesday.