Street Smart Economics | From a lack of resources to a movement for child labor, growing up in the US is bad and getting worse The state of America’s children is not good. And there is every reason to believe that things will get worse as a result of the ...
12 Jul 2023 - Martin Hart-Lan...
After 2 years at Street Roots, K. Rambo provides a look at what's happened and a look at what's ahead July 5, 2021 was a very different time for Street Roots, Portland and the entire United States. We had a different governor, different city cou ...
5 Jul 2023 - K. Rambo
Opinion | PSU researchers release 2-year evaluation, find police-alternative works, needs investment, support Portland Street Response is achieving what it set out to do. Portland Street Response is in danger of being dismantled. Both are true. Kaia Sand ...
27 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | A tribute to Daniel Ellsberg’s tireless work in the name of truth He first gave the documents to The New York Times, then The Washington Post. Next came The Boston Globe — his hometown at the time — followed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and 11 ...
20 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Street Roots’ West Burnside building, currently under construction, will be a space for civic engagement “For those who can’t afford free speech.” That’s been the Street Roots tagline since the first issue was published in December 1999 — a tip ...
14 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Just like everyone else, unhoused individuals are trying to fulfill their basic human needs, but they are often out of reach. Food, water, respite and a restroom. Why make it harder? Imagine you have to carry everything you own — bedding, the fo ...
8 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Human connection, despite housing status, makes us stronger “When I moved to Portland, I didn’t know anyone,” Stacey Heath, Street Roots board chair, told me. Then she met Bruce Heino. It was 2009. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street R ...
31 May 2023 - Kaia Sand
Street Smart Economics | While Democratic and Republican lawmakers squabble over the debt ceiling, they can always agree on one thing: more military funding There is a lot of talk lately about the federal budget, with Democrats and Republicans arguing ove ...
24 May 2023 - Martin Hart-Lan...
Opinion | The May 16 fire at the May Apartments displaced Street Roots vendor James Hammond and many others When the fire alarm went off, James Hammond was preparing to head out for the day to sell Street Roots. He looked out of his second-floor apartment ...
19 May 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Sociologist Matthew Desmond estimates $140 billion a year in benefits to low-income people go unclaimed Determined to file his taxes, a man I know labored to find an accountant to help him, as he does every year. This year is the first year he h ...
17 May 2023 - Kaia Sand