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We can fix global trade and create social, worker benefits

COMMENTARY | Government, not corporations, should manage trade policy in the U.S. Street Smart Economics is a periodic series written by professors emeriti in economics for Street Roots. How do we change U.S. trade policy to better serve the interests of ...

29 Dec 2017 - Robin Hahnel
‘We can choose peace’: The need for new U.S.-Korea policy

COMMENTARY | Historically, it’s the United States – not North Korea – that has undermined diplomacy United States-North Korean relations remain tense, with the Trump administration threatening to launch a first-strike military attack to destroy North Kore ...

24 Nov 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...
Fix Portland's housing crisis: Tax big businesses and the wealthy

COMMENTARY | They've been enormously enriched for decades while taxes on the 1 percent have fallen Street Smart Economics is a periodic series written by professors emeriti in economics for Street Roots. Weather forecasters are predicting another col ...

17 Nov 2017 - Mary King
A measured approach to globalization

COMMENTARY | Restoring prudent regulations for U.S. employers is the first step If neither the neoliberal globalization peddled by establishment political parties nor xenophobic protectionism preached by right-wing populists like Donald Trump is the answe ...

6 Oct 2017 - Robin Hahnel
Our fading American Dream and what we can do about it

COMMENTARY | Efforts to speed economic growth are not the solution A recent study published in Science Magazine, “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940,” makes clear that the workings of the contemporary U.S. economy hav ...

29 Aug 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...
A progressive economic agenda for Portland

COMMENTARY | With two city council seats open in 2018, these initiatives could be included in a progressive platform Right now, city campaigns may be our best strategy for creating an economy that works for everybody. Local governments still respond to or ...

4 Aug 2017 - Mary King
Corporate-sponsored globalization is not free trade

COMMENTARY | While multinational corporations benefit, less skilled workers, less developed countries and other Americans are harmed There is a grand debate over international economic policy now raging, and the outcome will have profound impacts on how t ...

23 Jun 2017 - Robin Hahnel
The attack on labor unions – and why they matter

COMMENTARY | Improving our quality of life will require rebuilding union strength Fewer workers are in unions now than in 1983, the earliest year in the Bureau of Labor Statistics series on union membership. In 1983 there were 17.7 million, 20.1 percent o ...

9 Jun 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...
On taxes, corporations win, Oregonians lose – once again

COMMENTARY | Measure 97 would have prevented businesses from passing a tax increase on to consumers. Instead, we're left with a 'bipartisan' tax proposal that amounts to a gift to big corporations. In the aftermath of the defeat of Measure ...

15 May 2017 - Robin Hahnel
Rent stabilization: It’s Portland’s time

COMMENTARY | 200 U.S. cities have successful programs that could serve as models for Portland In the face of the housing crisis confronting Portland and much of the state, the Legislature should lift the 35-year ban on Oregon localities hoping to enact re ...

20 Apr 2017 - Mary King