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Street Smart Economics

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Street Smart Economics is a periodic series written for Street Roots by professors emeriti in economics. 

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Economic devastation from COVID-19 did not have to be this bad

COMMENTARY | The feds should pay people to stay home while investing in a long-term recovery plan
By
Mary King
May 27, 2020
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Concept of the risk of collapse of the capitalism system with the global epidemic of COVID-19

Back to normal is not good enough; we need a new economy

COMMENTARY | The failings of our current system are only accentuated by the coronavirus crisis
By
Martin Hart-Landsberg
April 21, 2020
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The eye of Benjamin Franklin on a hundred dollar bill

Business interests fighting Metro tax for homeless services are short on the facts

COMMENTARY | Their real goal may be to stop us from making them pay their fair share
By
Mary King
March 21, 2020
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Military tanks and aircraft

U.S. military depends on fuel – and has the carbon footprint to prove it

COMMENTARY | As the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, America’s military must be reined in
By
Martin Hart-Landsberg
February 14, 2020
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Preschool classroom activities

Opinion | The real impact of universal preschool and a tax on the 5%

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Pre-K education should be the right of all of our children
By
Mary King
January 24, 2020
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Bernie Sanders

A wealth tax? It could work in the U.S.

COMMENTARY | We need more funding for public programs; we also need to address the obscene concentration of wealth
By
Martin Hart-Landsberg
December 20, 2019
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A retirement-age couple sitting on a bench, overlooking the water

Baby boomers are ready to retire – if only they could afford to

COMMENTARY | With big businesses unwilling to bring back pensions or raise wages, seniors are left with tough decisions, and younger generations are left behind
By
Martin Hart-Landsberg
October 11, 2019
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Street signs showing intersection of Wall Street and Main Street

Wall Street speculators and the loss of affordable housing

COMMENTARY | Investment giants are inflating Portland housing prices, a local expert argues
By
Mary King
September 13, 2019
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Map of North America

Like NAFTA, USMCA trade deal is about corporate globalization

COMMENTARY | Beware of biased methodology and bogus assumptions about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement
By
Martin Hart-Landsberg
June 21, 2019
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Teacher handing money over to corporate exeuctive

PERS reform sticks it to teachers, other underpaid public employees

COMMENTARY | Oregon business lobbyists scapegoat public workers while ignoring corporate responsibility for budget cuts
By
Mary King
May 10, 2019

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