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Mary King

Articles by Mary King

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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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    Illustration of house made of dollars

    Big money prevents real progress on rent stabilization

    COMMENTARY | Oregon’s new law is nothing compared to efforts in some U.S. cities
    By
    Mary King
    March 1, 2019
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    Portland City Hall

    Local strategies to fight the federal government's class war

    COMMENTARY | State and local taxes on the rich could support affordable housing, child care, health care in Oregon
    By
    Mary King
    March 16, 2018
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    Graph: Since recession, big income gains at top; not so for middle

    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
    By
    Mary King
    November 17, 2017
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    Portland City Hall

    A progressive economic agenda for Portland

    COMMENTARY | With two city council seats open in 2018, these initiatives could be included in a progressive platform
    By
    Mary King
    August 4, 2017
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    Housing and money illustration

    Rent stabilization: It’s Portland’s time

    COMMENTARY | 200 U.S. cities have successful programs that could serve as models for Portland
    By
    Mary King
    April 20, 2017
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    Mary C. King

    What will it take to achieve economic gender equality?

    COMMENTARY | 65 other countries do better at paying women equally with men doing similar work
    By
    Mary King
    March 2, 2017
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    Mary C. King

    An economist's answers about Measure 97

    COMMENTARY | This is a corporate tax, not a sales tax that will be levied on consumers
    By
    Mary King
    October 13, 2016

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