Opinion
Street Roots Podcast | Sen. Ron Wyden: ‘A historic day’ for reducing poverty in America
On this episode of the Street Roots Podcast, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) joined host DeVon Pouncey to discuss a major expansion of the Child Tax Credit. “This is going to reduce poverty in America amongs children 50%,” he said of the plan, which went into effect July 15. “To give you the nuts and bolts of it, it’s…
Diary of a Victims’ Advocate | Helping survivors navigate complex systems is knowing when to step aside
Diary of a Victims' Advocate A periodic column written by Crime Victim Advocacy Program staff at the Portland and Vancouver offices of Lutheran Community Services Northwest, a secular nonprofit offering multicultural services across the region. These advocates work with a restorative approach throughout the metro area to support victims of crimes. All the services they provide…
Opinion | How a Soviet miner from the 1930s helped create today’s intense corporate workplace culture
Bogdan Costea is a professor of management and society at Lancaster University in the U.K. Peter Watt is international lecturer in management and organization studies at Lancaster University. One summer night in August 1935, a young Soviet miner named Alexei Stakhanov managed to extract 102 metric tons of coal in a single shift. This was…
Street Roots vendor writing | Cleanup day at the Laurelhurst camp
Bronwyn Carver is a member of Street Roots' MoJo reporting group — short for mobile journalists. Street Roots’ MoJo program comprises vendors interested in journaling life on the streets and writing about issues important to our community. This is her account of one of the recent outreach efforts to unhoused people in the Laurelhurst Park…
Kaia Sand | Five Street Roots ambassadors land jobs at Greater Good Northwest
Doug Marks smiled broadly standing outside the former Econo Lodge in Washington County where more than 40 people now reside in the Greater Good Northwest Shelter. He told me how he had stayed up late the night before, getting “everything ready for work, getting all my outfits ready for the week, pressed and laid out.”…
Podcast
Street Roots Podcast | Sen. Ron Wyden: ‘A historic day’ for reducing poverty in America
On this episode of the Street Roots Podcast, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) joined host DeVon Pouncey to discuss a major expansion of the Child Tax Credit. “This is going to reduce poverty in America amongs children 50%,” he said of the plan, which went into effect July 15. “To give you the nuts and bolts of it, it’s…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | Continuing their outreach work beyond Street Roots
Street Roots ambassadors Doug Marks and River Reese are familiar faces around the Street Roots office, both known for their warm energy and hard work ethic. They both started at Street Roots around early 2020 and since then graduated to Street Roots’ Ambassador Program, providing outreach and assistance to people living on the streets. As…
News
A look inside the anarchist city on Portland’s Kelly Butte
What can houseless people do to fight back and better their own lives? Because no one else is going to do it for us.” Those were the words that started PDX Houseless Radicals Collective, according to Jean-Jacques Michell, a founding member. Michell told Street Roots the collective considered other areas where they could be useful…
