The COVID-19 pandemic has proven minimum wage does not pay enough to cover the costs of daily living. Since early March, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused unemployment to skyrocket…
Farmworkers face unique challenges in a global pandemic
Essential workers in every industry across the country are facing unique and devastating challenges to cope with COVID-19, but none quite like agricultural farmworkers. Most of the 174,000 employees across…
Fall term kicks off with a back to school town hall
Portland State kicked off its 75th anniversary with a Virtual Town Hall Wednesday, featuring a panel of administrative leaders who offered answers to top questions looming over students and faculty…
PSU athletics under NCAA COVID-19 guidelines
With 156 postponed or cancelled sporting events, five seasons abruptly upended and over 215 student athletes affected, COVID-19 has left its mark on Portland State athletics. Where do the Vikings…
The rules only apply to you: renters in a landlord system
In the lead-up to the COVID-19 crisis, it was a common refrain from housing activists that tenant protections have always been lacking and needed some beefing up. Landlords and large…
Toxic productivity
Here we go, adding yet another hashmark to the number of days we’ve been isolating at home. I’m beginning to realize the accumulating anxiety I’ve felt since that first fateful…
Celebrating your birthday during a pandemic
Alright folks, we’re almost six months into this pandemic. Along with the massive human toll and economic, political and emotional fallout this will cause, it also means almost half of…
This Week Around the World
Aug. 16 Mogadishu, Somalia: An attack by the militant group al-Shabab on the Elite Hotel located on Lido Beach in Mogadishu, Somalia left at least 11 dead, including five of…
New year, new students, new challenges
For the incoming freshmen class, whose senior year of high school was already affected when the COVID-19 pandemic canceled proms, last days of high school and traditional graduations, the idea…
Hill to Hall August 10–12
Aug.10: Oregon Legislature convenes and concludes special session Oregon lawmakers started and ended a one-day special session Monday, fixing deficits in the budget due to the COVID-19 pandemic and passing…
Oregon’s largest universities to hit the books in different ways this fall
Portland State announced a “mostly remote” fall term in an email to students on Thursday, July 7. While maintaining the moniker “Flexible Fall,” the urban university has moved to designating…