By Sara Gates, Anna Arutyunova and Rebecca Gray, Contributing Writers Families with children have become the fastest growing population of people experiencing homelessness, leading to a rising demand for diapers. Every Tuesday night, a small group gathers ...
20 Dec 2012 - Street Roots Staff
By Israel Bayer, Staff Writer Homelessness in our community and cities throughout the country has become the new normal. That’s a problem. Three decades ago, the federal government began slashing housing and mental health programs. The bleeding has never ...
25 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Street Roots editorial Oregon statutes are filled with preemptions, those law-of-the-land overrides on local government. They have their supporters and detractors, depending on what side of the argument you’re on, but in the best of matters they can be pr ...
13 Mar 2013 - Street Roots Staff
The new documentary by filmmakers Joe and Harry Gantz explores the lives of Oregonians struggling to survive poverty By Jake Thomas, Staff Writer The Great Recession began nearly five years ago. Since then, economists and the media have produced a string ...
14 Mar 2013 - Jake Thomas
Food insecurity a primary benchmark in our rising suburban poverty It’s lunchtime at Alder Elementary in the east Portland suburb of Gresham, and even though it’s summer, the school’s gym-turned-cafeteria is packed with children. There are about 80 grade ...
15 Aug 2013 - Nathan Gilles
The following column won top honors among vendor essays at the International Network of Street Paper Awards 2013 in July. It is written by a vendor with Street Roots’ sister paper Apropos in Austria. I’m going my way. What is this day going to bring? Some ...
28 Aug 2013 - Andrea Hoschek
Recently, there has been quite a buzz in the criminal justice reform community across the nation. Attorney General Eric Holder, who heads our nation’s Department of Justice, announced earlier this month that the DOJ will be taking steps to reform and tran ...
11 Sep 2013 - Cassandra Villaneuva
Number of lights at ZooLights in 2013: 1.5 million Number of acres the Oregon Department of Forestry owns: 16 million Largest donation given through the 2013 Willamette Week Give!Guide: $20,000 Number of organizations receiving donations through 2013 Wil ...
13 Jan 2014 - Street Roots Staff
The title of author Sasha Abramsky’s new book, “The American Way of Poverty,” might sound a bit patronizing to patriotic ears, given that Abramsky was born in Great Britain and attended Oxford University. But living now in his mother’s homeland of America ...
28 Jan 2014 - Jay Thiemeyer
• Percentage of low-income Oregon families who pay more than half their income on housing: 80 • Percentage of Oregon children living in poverty in 2011: 25 • School children in Oregon who were homeless in 2013: 20,000 • Hours per week a worker earning min ...
1 Mar 2014 - Street Roots Staff