BREAKING: Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill to have the public take a 50% ownership stake in the country's biggest AI companies. The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would have the government tax AI companies, take 50% of the stock, and put it under public control.

St. Johns, Kenton Farmers Markets opening soon northpeninsulareview.com/farmers-mark...

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Great campaign from @theamiba.bsky.social #moveyourmoney Every dollar that stays close to home matters!

$21.8 million to capitalize a revolving loan fund for social housing 😍 Despite the Mayor’s efforts to undermine social housing (I.e. firing Helmi Hisserich after she blew the whistle on “lost” housing dollars), we are organizing to make it happen!

On April 15, Portland City Council will consider a resolution focused on keeping the Inner Eastside Area Planning project moving forward. This is the resolution passed out of committee on March 12th (unanimously!) with huge support from our membership and coalition in the form of written testimony.

Tomorrow is the District 3 Budget Open House! Talk to your District Councilors about your top funding priorities. This is going to be an incredibly difficult budget season so I recommend sharing what you’d be okay with cutting and what you want to preserve. www.portland.gov/budget/event...

These billionaires pay their workers so little that many of their workers need public assistance. Meanwhile, their companies just got another round of tax cuts from a bill that gutted the public assistance their workers have to rely on to get by. Trickle-down economics is a sham.

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Portland companies with annual sales totaling less than $50,000 are exempt from the city’s business license tax. On Wednesday, city councilors unanimously advanced an ordinance that would raise the threshold for exemption to $75,000 in sales this year, and up to $100,000 in 2027.

Portland’s economy appears to be struggling, so how do we fix it? While progressives cite everything from investment in green jobs, to building a skilled workforce with social programs, others, including the governor, are focused on using tax incentives to attract businesses investing in the state.

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Portland Community College’s largest union, the Federation of Faculty and Academic Professionals, reached a tentative agreement with the college’s management to end a weeks-long strike late Monday night.

The shop’s third location will be in a former underwear store on Southwest Washington Street.

Vance launched Stumptown Savings with the aim of creating a “Wirecutter for groceries.”

They want systemic reform—and they also want to destigmatize debt.

Thanks to YouTube, tool libraries and repair cafes, you don’t have to be “mechanically minded” or go broke making basic repairs.