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Burien (/ ˈ b jʊər i ə n / BURE-ee-ən) [9] is a suburban city in King County, Washington, United States, located south of Seattle on Puget Sound. As of the 2020 census , [ 7 ] Burien's population was 52,066, which is a 56.3% increase since incorporation in 1993, making it the 25th most populous city in Washington .
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Seattle City Light is the public utility providing electricity to Seattle, Washington, in the United States, and parts of its metropolitan area, including all of Shoreline, nearly all of Lake Forest Park, and parts of unincorporated King County, Burien, Normandy Park, SeaTac, Renton, and Tukwila. [1]
The Department of Labor and Industries was created by an act of the state legislature in 1921, overseeing industrial insurance, worker safety, and industrial relations. [2] [3] The new agency superseded the Bureau of Labor, created in 1901 to inspect workplaces, and minor state boards and commissions monitoring worker health, safety, and insurance claims.
The Washington State Department of Information Services (DIS) was a Governor's Cabinet-level agency that provided information technology assistance to state and local agencies, school districts, tribal organizations, and qualifying nonprofit groups in Washington. [1]
Lake Burien played a key role in Burien's early history. The city was originally founded by homesteaders, who settled along Puget Sound and the shores of the lake. [1] The Lake was named for Gottlieb and Emma Worm Burian, early settlers in the area (it is unclear how "Burian" became "Burien").
The department used large computers to process payments and data; by 1957, it had 65 IBM machines with 440,000 punch cards to process records for 600,000 workers in the state. [ 5 ] During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the state unemployment system was the target of an international fraud scheme from Nigeria that cost over $650 million in losses.
Gottlieb Burian (1837–1902) is the namesake for the city of Burien, Washington.He was an early settler to the region (before Washington statehood in 1889) who established a home near what is now known as Lake Burien in 1884.