Researcher discusses his study of black, teenage 'strivers' from working-poor families The stresses of poverty are well known among scientists and public policy experts. The effects of erratic sleep while homeless, the constant worry low-income ...
27 Aug 2015 - Amanda Waldroupe
‘House Keys Not Handcuffs’ is an insightful testimony to the trials and triumphs of the homeless Paul Boden’s “ House Keys Not Handcuffs,” a dramatic and disconcerting book on homeless organizing, art and policy in San Francisco and elsewhere, begins with ...
28 Jul 2015 - Paul Von Blum
David Riemer and the Community Advocates Public Policy Institute have a plan that would allow poor Americans to earn wages they need to get out of poverty Reducing poverty by 50 percent sounds like a bleeding heart liberal’s dream. Saying that people shou ...
24 Jul 2015 - Amanda Waldroupe
If homelessness, housing and wages are any indicator of how much Black Lives Matter in Portland — then we are failing, badly. The latest 2015 Multnomah County Homeless Count was released in early June. If homelessness, housing and wages are any indicator ...
29 Jun 2015 - Israel Bayer
Neighborhood Partnerships and the Oregon Housing Alliance asked: What do you want to see? Last month we asked community members to share their vision. We asked: What does building Oregon’s future mean to you? What would change in your life, in your experi ...
1 Jun 2015 - Omar Carrillo
A simple wooden cross hangs around the neck of Jim Anderson, a tall and lanky Pete Seeger lookalike who is now 88. “I hope the Mexicans will win the Mexican American war on poverty,” he announces as we begin. It takes me a few minutes to catch on: his sen ...
18 Apr 2015 - Myrla Magness
"Hand to Mouth" author Linda Tirado speaks with Street Roots about her own experiences living in poverty In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned to rolling a boulder to the top of a hill, an act that required the greatest exertion, only to ha ...
14 Mar 2015 - Jared Paben
Matt Taibbi’s new book looks at the American justice system and the gap between what we’re led to believe and the reality of our economics The premise for “The Divide” is that our society has become “disturbingly comfortable” with a perverse system of jus ...
27 Feb 2015 - Jim Douglas
There has been a lot of discussion about income inequality in our country lately — we are living in a time when wealth is concentrated among the richest Americans, and the gap between the richest and everyone else is the widest it’s been since the 1920’s. ...
1 Dec 2014 - Michael Buonocore
The last few months have seen a spree of really good news for Portland’s tech industry. From Intel’s $13.8 billion second quarter (up 8 percent from a year earlier), to Bain Capital taking a $230 million stake in online banking startup Simple, to the host ...
3 Sep 2014 - M. Nels Johnson