Seattle Benefits From Growth In Global Health

The latest growth industry and job-machine in Seattle is the field of global health. Non-profit groups are fueling a mini building-boom downtown, and they're hiring. The Gates Foundation presence is a major reason. But some locals are hand-wringing that it's unseemly to even call it an industry when local jobs are based on Third World despair.

The boom in global health and development has also spawned a new blog, called Humanosphere, in a partnership between NPR and KPLU.