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Sign from of the Oregon Employment Department

Employment department settles lawsuit after ending PUA for thousands of people

The legal action resulted in a settlement reached with the Employment Department in June giving people more time and clarity on how they can keep their benefits
By
Jake Thomas
July 21, 2021
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Sen. Ron Wyden and someone wearing a Portland Street Response T-shirt

Editorial | Portland Street Response is waiting for the city to catch up

Portland’s bare-bones commitment to the non-police crisis response program doesn’t reflect the substantial public demand for it
By
SR editorial board
July 21, 2021
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Jean-Jacques Michell with his dog

A look inside the anarchist city on Portland’s Kelly Butte

PDX Houseless Radicals Collective has made the isolated park home base in its fight to address houseless issues
By
Henry Brannan
July 14, 2021
Street Roots
Photo showing exterior wall of building with American flag painted on it and white door in middle

Opinion | Confronting inequity in the homeless system requires immediate action

And the government must help, writes the executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless
By
Donald Whitehead
July 21, 2021
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Laurelhurst Park sign

Street Roots vendor writing | Cleanup day at the Laurelhurst camp

From Central City Concern to city staffers to Ground Score, many teams joined the effort. Why can’t we do this for all Portland camps?
By
Bronwyn Carver
July 14, 2021
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Street Roots Podcast | Sen. Ron Wyden: ‘A historic day’ for reducing poverty in America

Episode 21: The senator celebrates the expansion of the Child Tax Credit and discusses wildfire mitigation, his CAHOOTS bill and more
By
DeVon Pouncey
July 16, 2021
Street Roots
Walled In podcast logo: A co-production of Street Roots and The Exiled Voice

Walled In podcast | After prison, ‘I had to relearn how to touch people’

Episode 2: Former prisoners discuss how absence of touch and rules against intimacy affected them while they were incarcerated, and an expert explains the science behind touch starvation
By
Emily Green Joshua Wright
July 10, 2021
Street Roots
Photo showing exterior wall of building with American flag painted on it and white door in middle

Opinion | Confronting inequity in the homeless system requires immediate action

And the government must help, writes the executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless
By
Donald Whitehead
July 21, 2021
Street Roots
Sign from of the Oregon Employment Department

Employment department settles lawsuit after ending PUA for thousands of people

The legal action resulted in a settlement reached with the Employment Department in June giving people more time and clarity on how they can keep their benefits
By
Jake Thomas
July 21, 2021
Street Roots
Sen. Ron Wyden and someone wearing a Portland Street Response T-shirt

Editorial | Portland Street Response is waiting for the city to catch up

Portland’s bare-bones commitment to the non-police crisis response program doesn’t reflect the substantial public demand for it
By
SR editorial board
July 21, 2021
Street Roots

Street Roots Podcast | Sen. Ron Wyden: ‘A historic day’ for reducing poverty in America

Episode 21: The senator celebrates the expansion of the Child Tax Credit and discusses wildfire mitigation, his CAHOOTS bill and more
By
DeVon Pouncey
July 16, 2021
Street Roots
Photos of River and Doug, both wearing protective face coverings

Street Roots vendor profile | Continuing their outreach work beyond Street Roots

Doug and River are moving on to Greater Good Northwest, where they will continue the work they’re passionate about
By
Dylan Jefferies
July 14, 2021
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Clark County Courthouse building exterior

Diary of a Victims’ Advocate | Helping survivors navigate complex systems is knowing when to step aside

OPINION | Sometimes we need to let them take the reins
By
N.L.D.
July 14, 2021
Street Roots
Historical photo shows Alexei Stakhanov with a mining drill, talking to another miner

Opinion | How a Soviet miner from the 1930s helped create today’s intense corporate workplace culture

Alexei Stakhanov’s productivity and work ethic were central to Soviet Communist propaganda and have since been embraced by managers in the West
By
Bogdan Costea Peter Watt
July 14, 2021
Street Roots
Laurelhurst Park sign

Street Roots vendor writing | Cleanup day at the Laurelhurst camp

From Central City Concern to city staffers to Ground Score, many teams joined the effort. Why can’t we do this for all Portland camps?
By
Bronwyn Carver
July 14, 2021
Street Roots
Jean-Jacques Michell with his dog

A look inside the anarchist city on Portland’s Kelly Butte

PDX Houseless Radicals Collective has made the isolated park home base in its fight to address houseless issues
By
Henry Brannan
July 14, 2021
Street Roots
Eboni Brown talks to Street Roots ambassadors

Kaia Sand | Five Street Roots ambassadors land jobs at Greater Good Northwest

OPINION | The Ambassador Program emerged from the pandemic, and now, new doors are opening
By
Kaia Sand
July 14, 2021
Street Roots
Walled In podcast logo: A co-production of Street Roots and The Exiled Voice

Walled In podcast | After prison, ‘I had to relearn how to touch people’

Episode 2: Former prisoners discuss how absence of touch and rules against intimacy affected them while they were incarcerated, and an expert explains the science behind touch starvation
By
Emily Green Joshua Wright
July 10, 2021
Street Roots
A watercolor illustration depicts an Indigenous person removing a protective face mask to reveal nothing, just a blank space where her mouth should be.

COVID-19’s toll on Oregon’s tribal elders imperils preservation of Native languages

They taught more than grammar and vocabulary; they taught the cultural meaning behind the words. And now, they’re gone.
By
Brian Oaster
July 7, 2021
Street Roots
A photo illustration shows the silhouette of adult with a child walking on train tracks

Opinion | The boy who loved the father in his dream

Ga lo Vann shares the story of the first hanbleceya and with it reveals the curse of modern-day America and how it has played out in the life of a man sent to prison for killing his sexual abusers as a boy
By
Ga lo Vann
July 7, 2021
Street Roots
Illustration of two hands reaching for each other, but not touching, with prison bars in the background

The science behind human touch — and what happens when prisoners go without

Deprivation of positive physical contact can result in depression and aggressive behavior, explains the founder of the Touch Research Institute
By
Emily Green
July 7, 2021
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A scene from the film and the cover of the tape

Opinion | What the reception to Seattle’s grittiest film can tell us about the city’s homelessness crisis

Since ‘Streetwise’ was released almost four decades ago, inequality has only grown larger
By
Andrew Hedden
July 7, 2021
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Hands holding coins

Opinion | Guaranteed income can solve U.S. poverty

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | A team of researchers proposes the IRS make monthly payments to lower-income families to move every household above the poverty line
By
Mary King
July 7, 2021
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A tent sits near the bank of the river

Kaia Sand | Where, exactly, can unhoused people camp under Portland’s new policy?

OPINION | Unhoused people deserve to know how the new ordinance on camp sweeps will be applied.
By
Kaia Sand
July 7, 2021
Street Roots
Street Roots logo with photos of Nicholas Kristof, DeVon Pouncey and Gary Barker

Street Roots Podcast | NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof wants to make you uncomfortable

Episode 20: The “Tightrope” author and longtime Oregonian talks about using his platform to draw people’s attention to our nation’s inequities
By
DeVon Pouncey
July 3, 2021
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Rick Davis, pictured with his quote: "Street Roots means family to me. We celebrate the good times and the bad, too. Just like family."

Street Roots vendor profile | Missing his customers during the pandemic

Rick looks forward to getting back to his regular spots to sell the newspaper
By
Jessica Hamilton
June 30, 2021
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Confucius Plaza Apartments building exterior

Opinion | The commons: Imagining a better normal

Facing problems of gentrification and increased housing costs, many communities have turned housing into commons
By
Jason Hopper
June 30, 2021

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