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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 W e could eradicate poverty and raise the incomes of U.S. families in the bottom half of the inco ...

7 Jul 2021 - Mary King
Opinion | Black Lives Matter protests have saved lives, study finds

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | This research legitimizes efforts in Portland and beyond to defund the police C onsiderable research shows that oppressive economic and social conditions are bad for one’s mental and physical health. A number of studies have also ...

26 May 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
Opinion | IRS audits the poor, ignoring wealthy tax dodgers and big corporations

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Investing in enforcement of tax laws could bring in over a trillion dollars in government revenue In this U.S., the heaviest taxes fall on people with the least income, despite the insults you hear about so-called “makers and take ...

28 Apr 2021 - Mary King
Opinion | The failings of our unemployment insurance system are there by design

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | It is hard to celebrate a system that covers fewer than 30% of America’s jobless Our unemployment insurance system has failed us. With tens of millions of workers struggling just to pay rent and buy food, Congress was forced to pa ...

17 Mar 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
Opinion | Look to Washington state for ways to fund affordable housing

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Prepare to step up locally, in case the feds don’t The crisis of affordable housing can only be met by a well-funded government program to buy, renovate and build excellent public housing. The private sector has not and will not m ...

17 Feb 2021 - Mary King
Opinion | Big corporations offered pandemic hazard pay — until customers stopped paying attention

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Most ended the additional pay for frontline retail workers before July I t wasn’t that long ago that the country celebrated frontline workers by banging pots in the evening to thank them for the risks they took doing their jobs du ...

13 Jan 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
Opinion | Oregon lawmakers can ease economic inequality

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | The pandemic widened the gap between rich and poor, but the Legislature could provide remedies Terrible news of death and economic destruction due to the pandemic dominates the headlines, hitting hardest at the health and economic ...

23 Dec 2020 - Mary King
Opinion | Fewer deaths from COVID-19 among unionized nursing homes

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...
Opinion | Keeping people in their place: The economics of racial violence

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Shifts in policy appear more possible now than they have in decades Millions of people in the streets calling for an end to police violence against Black people have given a push to policy changes that have been stalled for decade ...

30 Sep 2020 - Mary King
Opinion | We must challenge militarism in efforts to defund police

U.S. defense spending and the resulting militarization of our nation’s police forces dwarf investments in actual needs, such as housing and social services The excessive use of force and killings of unarmed Black Americans by police has fueled a growing n ...

6 Aug 2020 - Martin Hart-Lan...