The state is required to adopt rules for a community solar program, and it's looking to Colorado and Minnesota for ideas As their deadline approaches, policymakers are figuring out how to implement state-mandated community solar programs across Orego ...
16 Feb 2017 - Emily Green
Eli Fishel and her co-workers envision a $5-an-hour raise starting immediately I believe that everyone working, 30 to 40 hours a week especially, should be making enough to live, at the very least. They should also be making enough to move forward in thei ...
7 Jun 2016 - Eli Fishel
Commentary: Oregon nonprofits and businesses currently utilize this statute to pay thousands of individuals a subminimum wage I’m here to sound an alarm. The minimum wage is not, it turns out, actually the minimum wage. You may not know this, but there’s ...
7 Dec 2015 - Stephen Marc Beaudoin
Portland's housing shortage affects everyone — here's how you can get involved Jeff Riddle was nervous, sure. The public hearing about affordable housing was packed with more than 100 housing advocates and in front of him, sat a table of importa ...
11 Sep 2015 - Jes Larson
Did you know that to afford a lower-end, one-bedroom apartment at 30 percent of your income in Multnomah County you would need to make about $31,960 annually. That’s about $14.88 an hour. Thinking of something a bit more spacious, maybe with a view? Accor ...
16 Jan 2015 - Israel Bayer
It’s hard to say just when it began, the unravelling of the American Dream. Did it start in the ’70s, with the slow dismantling of industrial jobs in the Midwest? Can it be traced to the era of Reaganomics, that time period in the ’80s of reduced governme ...
20 Nov 2014 - Rosette Royale