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The New WA Cares Fund in Effect Starting July 1

That it’s a new, state-required program only employees contribute to is of little comfort to a lot of small-business owners—because guess who is required to do the paperwork.

In fact, the first of the five things the state Employment Security Department (ESD), which oversees the WA Cares Fund, wa

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