Welcome!

Thank you for visiting the Washington Alliance for a Competitive Economy (WashACE) website.

Perhaps you were drawn here by this radio ad. Or this one. Or maybe you saw this or this in your local newspaper. Regardless of how you found us, we're happy to have this opportunity to introduce ourselves.

WashACE was founded in 2000 as a partnership among the Association of Washington Business, Washington Research Council and Washington Roundtable to focus attention on issues relating to our state's economic competitiveness. In 2008, the Alliance was expanded to include a number of like-minded business associations and chambers of commerce. Here's a nice WashACE background article by Mike Flynn, former publisher of the Puget Sound Business Journal.

Over the years, WashACE has published a number of in-depth Competitiveness Briefs and Special Reports, examining issues from unemployment insurance to infrastructure, health care to education. A major issue for us this year is the looming $3 billion budget deficit lawmakers will be facing in January and its implications for families and employers.

Please take your time here. Review the blog posts below. Check out the 2008 research (link at right) and the archives. The candidate questionnaires. And sign up to be on our email list (form at top right).

And don't hesitate to email us with your suggestions, questions, and comments.

Thanks for stopping by.