COMMENTARY | With two city council seats open in 2018, these initiatives could be included in a progressive platform Right now, city campaigns may be our best strategy for creating an economy that works for everybody. Local governments still respond to or ...
4 Aug 2017 - Mary King
COMMENTARY | While multinational corporations benefit, less skilled workers, less developed countries and other Americans are harmed There is a grand debate over international economic policy now raging, and the outcome will have profound impacts on how t ...
23 Jun 2017 - Robin Hahnel
COMMENTARY | Improving our quality of life will require rebuilding union strength Fewer workers are in unions now than in 1983, the earliest year in the Bureau of Labor Statistics series on union membership. In 1983 there were 17.7 million, 20.1 percent o ...
9 Jun 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | Measure 97 would have prevented businesses from passing a tax increase on to consumers. Instead, we're left with a 'bipartisan' tax proposal that amounts to a gift to big corporations. In the aftermath of the defeat of Measure ...
15 May 2017 - Robin Hahnel
COMMENTARY | 200 U.S. cities have successful programs that could serve as models for Portland In the face of the housing crisis confronting Portland and much of the state, the Legislature should lift the 35-year ban on Oregon localities hoping to enact re ...
20 Apr 2017 - Mary King
COMMENTARY | There are many reasons to dismiss a declaration of crisis Be afraid, very afraid. There is good reason to fear that President Trump and the Republican Party are out to destroy our Social Security system. Social Security is an incredibly popu ...
17 Apr 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | By underfunding health care and education, Oregon is on a fast track to becoming Appalachia West Corporations and the wealthy understand where their self-interest lies in regard to taxes. It’s time for the rest of us to wise up and start voti ...
28 Mar 2017 - Robin Hahnel