Feature Article on Bloomberg Businessweek about Eugene/Ducks

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Interesting feature article on bloomberg businessweek. Critique bloomberg.com all you want but their businessweek feature articles are still some of the finest pieces of journalism out there.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... nd=premium

On a separate note it's nice to see the national media pick up more on the ducks. Earlier this year there was a Wall Street Journal article about Sabrina Ionescu. "The Hottest Player in College Basketball Is Named Sabrina"

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Interesting feature article on bloomberg businessweek. Critique bloomberg.com all you want but their businessweek feature articles are still some of the finest pieces of journalism out there.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... nd=premium

On a separate note it's nice to see the national media pick up more on the ducks. Earlier this year there was a Wall Street Journal article about Sabrina Ionescu. "The Hottest Player in College Basketball Is Named Sabrina"

Well sure, if you ignore the process by which Main St economics were devastated by deregulation of Wall St. and that the very people who are supposed to sound the alarms over this continued process instead focus on fluff pieces where they can state things like this but ignore the very reasons that caused the problem in the first place. That we have an affordable housing crisis is a direct response to actions by Congress over the last 26 years where we've seen 3 massive Corporate bailouts in the last 20 years alone. (3T to the finance industry like it was nothing - that's 30 years worth of Iraq and Afghanistan)

Among Eugene’s pressing concerns are how Covid-19’s toll on job losses will affect its homelessness problem. Before the pandemic, the city had the highest per-capita homeless rate in the U.S., at more than 430 people per 100,000, according to a Security.org analysis of federal data. In 2019 alone, according to city council minutes, Eugene saw a 32% increase in the number of people who experienced homelessness, a rise that local leaders attribute in part to a lack of affordable housing options. Social distancing has cut in half the number of available shelter beds. With more layoffs and colder temperatures, Emily Semple, the council representative for downtown Eugene, worries that the situation will worsen. “What are we going to do?” she asks. The irony is that a record number of people are living on the street amid a glut of empty hotels and student housing.