The following is an excerpt from a speech by Nan Roman, president and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. The Alliance is a public education, advocacy, and capacity-building organization with a network of more than 10,000 nonprofit, public s ...
22 Apr 2014 - Nan Roman
The walls at Safety Net of Oregon, a nonprofit that once helped disabled people manage their federal benefits, are usually covered with collages and fake flowers. But now the plaster walls are bare except for a sign stating that there will be no tolerance ...
10 Apr 2014 - Jake Thomas
• Average income needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment in Multnomah County: $17,720 • Average annual Social Security payment for retired workers in Multnomah County: $12,861 • Number of hours per week a worker earning minimum wage must work to afford a ...
10 Feb 2014 - Street Roots Staff
A new type of business doing good in Portland The building is striking. Several stories tall and stretching roughly two city blocks, the metal-framed factory’s roof is covered with 4,830 navy blue solar panels. This 850-kilowatt array is the largest of it ...
6 Nov 2013 - Nathan Gilles
Oregon’s new health networks are partnering with dental programs to bring better oral care to low-income families Despite the controversy and questions surrounding the new health care law, one concrete benefit is giving many of Oregon’s most vulnerable pe ...
4 Nov 2013 - Jasmine Rockow
There’s a lot of money — and lives — resting on Oregon’s grand experiment in restructuring health care through Medicaid. Portland metropolitan area’s largest coordinated care organization, Health Share of Oregon, like others across the state, have a manda ...
30 Jul 2013 - Amanda Waldroupe
Oregon is at the forefront of health care reform. Both national and local media, including Street Roots, has been covering the planned changes over the past two years. More recently, a multi-million dollar ad campaign has begun to educate residents on wha ...
30 Jul 2013 - SR editorial board
Yoga instructor draws on her own experiences to help others heal By Sue Zalokar, Staff writer You can’t control what life throws at you, but you can control how you react to it.” That was the meditation for my second community yoga class at the Old Town C ...
30 May 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
Central City Concern staffers design a new bed bug-resistant bed with nationwide appeal By Jake Thomas, Staff Writer Richard Klosterman had heard about them. The lady across the hallway from his apartment had them. And then he had them. Several years ago, ...
22 May 2013 - Jake Thomas
How Oregonians are eating the social and economic cost of bad oral health By Alex Zielinski, Staff writer Sitting in a reclining chair in Multnomah County’s newest dental clinic for the first time, Kenneth can’t help but smile. Despite his crooked, gapped ...
27 Mar 2013 - Alex Zielinski