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Leaders must ensure opportunities for locals, not just tax breaks for wealthy investors

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The inclusion of several Washougal parcels in Governor Jay Inslee’s Opportunity Zone designations is a piece of positive economic news for a town that often struggles to keep up with other Clark County areas in the post-Recession era.

To qualify as an Opportunity Zone, a census tract had to have an individual poverty rate of at least 20 percent and a median family income of no more than 80 percent of the area median.

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