Katie Park, one of the journalists behind the project, talks to Street Roots about what the team has learned: ‘This really is a serious issue behind bars’ The Marshall Project has been tracking confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths within America’s state ...
10 Mar 2021 - Emily Green
Many people experiencing homelessness are older than 55 and have underlying illnesses At a time when health care providers are accelerating mass vaccinations to get the COVID-19 vaccines into as many arms as possible, others are concerned that approach wo ...
20 Jan 2021 - Joanne Zuhl
Staff raised concerns about widespread availability of vaccinations at the institution while other frontline workers in the community go without Some Oregon Health & Science University employees expressed concern this week as COVID-19 vaccines became ...
8 Jan 2021 - Jessica Pollard
Even as Impact NW ramps up rent relief and other assistance to keep people housed, the debt for past-due rent continues to accumulate Prior to the pandemic, Deedra Martin was on a tight schedule. After she dropped off her 7-year-old daughter, Ellie, at Ma ...
30 Dec 2020 - Emma Nathanson
Front-end staff worry plexiglass dividers won't protect them during holiday crowd levels It’s been eight months since an employee at Portland's Pearl District Whole Foods on Northwest Couch Street and Twelfth Avenue died from complications relat ...
24 Dec 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Part of the decrease is attributed to less accurate counting while students are learning remotely The number of students identified as homeless in Portland Public Schools is nearly half what it was this time last year — but district officials say those nu ...
23 Dec 2020 - Christen McCurdy
A prisoner at Oregon State Penitentiary shares his experience in isolation after being tested for the virus Reprinted with permission from All Rise magazine. I sat on the top bunk of my 8-by-10 cell. As a 62-year-old man, I suffered from heart disease, an ...
29 Nov 2020 - Jimmie Cohron
Photographer B Okabe captured this unusual moment in history as seen by those who live and work in Portland’s Old Town/Chinatown neighborhood Houseless people and members of other disenfranchised communities have called Old Town home throughout Portland’s ...
18 Nov 2020 - B Okabe
A therapist, medical doctors, journalists and a firefighter are in the thick of today's crises A month of utter destruction caused by devastating wildfires. Four months of nightly standoffs with protesters standing up for Black lives and against poli ...
7 Oct 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Seniors have a diverse set of needs — and solutions — in the battle against loneliness For people over 50, the physical health impacts of loneliness are alarming. Social isolation can be as harmful to their health as smoking cigarettes, according to the C ...
7 Oct 2020 - Jessica Pollard