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Martin Hart-Landsberg

Articles by Martin Hart-Lan...

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    Black Lives Matter protest sign in a crowd

    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
    By
    Martin Hart-Landsberg
    May 26, 2021
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    President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act

    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
    By
    Martin Hart-Landsberg
    March 17, 2021
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    The exterior of a Walmart store

    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
    By
    Martin Hart-Landsberg
    January 13, 2021
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    Senior with hands folded

    Opinion | Fewer deaths from COVID-19 among unionized nursing homes

    STREET SMART ECONOMICS | By protecting themselves, workers can better protect the people they serve
    By
    Martin Hart-Landsberg
    November 11, 2020
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    Federal law enforcement create a barrier with Portland Police Bureau on July 21 in downtown Portland amid protests over police brutality.

    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
    By
    Martin Hart-Landsberg
    August 6, 2020
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    A map of Portland that shows temperates and historical redlining

    Opinion | No coincidence that redlined areas are now heat islands

    STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Efforts to confront racism should extend to the fight for climate justice
    By
    Martin Hart-Landsberg
    June 30, 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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    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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    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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