STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Pre-K education should be the right of all of our children This fall, we could vote for free, year-round, high quality preschool for all 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds in Multnomah County, paid for with a county income tax on households w ...
24 Jan 2020 - Mary King
COMMENTARY | We need more funding for public programs; we also need to address the obscene concentration of wealth The bank robber Willie Sutton, when asked by a reporter why he robbed banks, is reputed to have answered, “Because that’s where the money is ...
20 Dec 2019 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | With big businesses unwilling to bring back pensions or raise wages, seniors are left with tough decisions, and younger generations are left behind Despite its reputation as the wealthiest generation, baby boomers (generally considered to be ...
11 Oct 2019 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | Oregon business lobbyists scapegoat public workers while ignoring corporate responsibility for budget cuts The Oregon Legislature is planning a pay cut for public employees, as a big part of a package to restructure the deficits caused by the ...
10 May 2019 - Mary King
COMMENTRY | It’s true: These young adults are faring worse than earlier generations A lot has been written and said that is critical of millennials. The business press has been tough on their spending habits. As a recent Federal Reserve Board study of mil ...
22 Mar 2019 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | Thanks in part to corporate lobbying, lawmakers think constituents are more conservative than they are Midterm elections are long over. But do our elected leaders really know or care what we think about critical issues? Unfortunately, the evi ...
18 Jan 2019 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | The imminent threat of climate change means globalization is now a necessity, not a convenience Traditionally progressive economists start by explaining why both neoliberal globalization as peddled by establishment political parties, and xeno ...
4 May 2018 - Robin Hahnel
COMMENTARY | State and local taxes on the rich could support affordable housing, child care, health care in Oregon Right-wing billionaires are funding a class war against the rest of the country, to grab an even bigger share of the pie without regard for ...
16 Mar 2018 - Mary King
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
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...