STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Pre-K education should be the right of all of our children This fall, we could vote for free, year-round, high quality preschool for all 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds in Multnomah County, paid for with a county income tax on households w ...
24 Jan 2020 - Mary King
COMMENTARY | Oregon business lobbyists scapegoat public workers while ignoring corporate responsibility for budget cuts The Oregon Legislature is planning a pay cut for public employees, as a big part of a package to restructure the deficits caused by the ...
10 May 2019 - Mary King
COMMENTARY | State and local taxes on the rich could support affordable housing, child care, health care in Oregon Right-wing billionaires are funding a class war against the rest of the country, to grab an even bigger share of the pie without regard for ...
16 Mar 2018 - Mary King
COMMENTARY | They've been enormously enriched for decades while taxes on the 1 percent have fallen Street Smart Economics is a periodic series written by professors emeriti in economics for Street Roots. Weather forecasters are predicting another col ...
17 Nov 2017 - Mary King