Episode 19: Oregon must extend the eviction moratorium, the Community Alliance Tenants director says On this episode of the Street Roots Podcast, Kim McCarty, the e xecutive director of the Community Alliance of Tenants, joins host DeVon Pouncey to discus ...
25 May 2021 - DeVon Pouncey
The federal relief package recognizes that our nation’s crisis began long before COVID-19 Out of the wreckage of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal legislation full of promise has arisen. The American Rescue Plan Act, enacted by Congress in March, could have ...
5 May 2021 - Janet Bauer
‘We all share the same surfaces because we are less than you, smaller spaces because we are less than you’ F rom behind prison walls, the business of COVID-19 is much like other external events. Recreational marijuana dispensaries, Donald Trump, the multi ...
10 Mar 2021 - Ga lo Vann
Scores of COVID-19 deaths in Oregon’s prisons underscore the failures of America’s carceral system E xpendable. The word refers to something that is normally used up or consumed in service, or something that is more easily replaced than rescued, salvaged ...
10 Mar 2021 - SR editorial board
The impacts on overall health outcomes should be monitored Stress during a pandemic can elicit fear and worry about health, it can disrupt sleep patterns, make concentration difficult, worsen chronic health conditions and mental health conditions, and lea ...
6 Jan 2021 - Rupal Ramesh Shah
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | By protecting themselves, workers can better protect the people they serve We need strong unions, all of us. Tragically, although perhaps not surprisingly, even during the pandemic businesses continue to aggressively resist worker ...
11 Nov 2020 - Martin Hart-Lan...
The failure to provide adequate care in correctional facilities is a symptom of an overburdened system “ I ncarceration affects health. In fact, more than half of the population in prisons and jails are at high risk for COVID-19 because many have chronic ...
11 Nov 2020 - Rupal Ramesh Shah
As COVID-19 keeps some folks at home, grocery delivery and pickup should be available to people who receive food benefits I’ve got a dilemma shared by thousands of poor, senior and disabled Oregonians. Like many Oregonians with a disability, I receive SNA ...
18 Sep 2020 - Michael Hopcroft
The pandemic has illuminated long-standing inequities in the American health care system, and it will take a nation to fix them Structural racism in the U.S. seeps into many aspects of Black Americans’ lives. As we’re witnessing with the coronavirus pande ...
7 Jul 2020 - Rupal Ramesh Shah
COMMENTARY | The feds should pay people to stay home while investing in a long-term recovery plan The death toll and suffering due to the coronavirus pandemic has been much worse in the U.S. than elsewhere. It didn’t have to be. Fortunately, we can still ...
27 May 2020 - Mary King