Monday Mailing - June 1, 2020

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Monday Mailing

Year 26 • Issue 38 01 June 2020 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Quote of the Week:

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Oregon Fast Fact

Oregon was the twentyfirst state in the nation to pass legislation outlawing discrimination in public spaces with the passage of Oregon’s Civil Rights Bill, also known as the Public Accommodations Bill, in 1953.

Pandemic Reveals Oregon’s Major Child Care Problem (Katie McFall) Pandemic Organizers Are Co-Opting Productivity Software (William Sullivan) American Cities Saw Uneven Growth Last Decade, New Census Data Show Will Floating Turbines Usher in a New Wave of Offshore Wind? You Can Do It: Computer Rehab Program Transforms Trash into Treasure Public Engagement in the Era of COVID-19 Portland Streets Can Turn into Outdoor Plazas With New Permitting Program (Eva Kahn) FDA Rolls Back Ingredient and Calorie Labeling Regulations, Citing Supply Chain Disruptions PODCAST – COVID-19 Crisis Puts Pressure on Farmers’ Mental Health RESOURCE – Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery

1. Pandemic Reveals Oregon’s Major Child Care Problem On March 23, Gov. Kate Brown issued an order to child care centers in an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus: abide by strict new emergency rules, or close. But some child care centers had already closed before that. And some tried to stay open, following the new emergency rules — and wound up closing anyway. The difficulties that child care centers are experiencing could pose a problem, as counties across Oregon reopen and look to workers to return … only to find that working parents can’t find care for their children. To access the full story, click here.

2. Pandemic Organizers Are Co-Opting Productivity Software

The workplace chat app Slack is where you go to do any number of things throughout the day: announce “I am busy”; pop into a conversation to clarify “I am paying attention”; submit a photo of your cat to the #cats channel to declare allegiance to your office’s cat people, for whatever reason. All the stuff of work, and of updating others on your work, and of taking short, performative breaks from work to look at a funny tweet and then get back to the grind. In 2017, Slack published a paid post on the New York Times website about how it was reinventing the office-worker experience, mostly by bending “time, space and knowledge for the better.” The company was valued at $23 billion when it went public last year. In March, it reported a record number of new sign-ups for paid versions of the software, as Page 1 of 5


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