Shelly Steward is the chief research officer at The Workers Lab and former director of the Aspen Institute’s Future of Work Initiative. Before sitting on a panel for the Zócalo/The James Irvine Foundation public program in Oakland, “What Is a Good Job Now? In Gig Work,” she swung by the green room to chat about Oregon, participatory action research, and the future of work.
Californians live in an era of exodus. So, if you want to see the future of California’s people, you have to leave the state.
I got an unexpected glimpse of that …
Michelle Wilde Anderson is the winner of the 2023 Zócalo Public Square Book Prize for The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America.
Zócalo awards the $10,000 prize annually to …
More than half of America’s unsheltered population lives in just three states—California, Oregon, and Washington—and West Coast voters are demanding a response. Homelessness ranked as the top concern in a …
The Columbus Day Storm of 1962 was the largest, most violent windstorm in the recorded history of the West Coast. Starting on October 12, it swept from Northern California …
Trucks shuffle in the slow lane.
Mt. Shasta’s a crazy white cone.
I drive as fast as I dare.
Car my shelter, my tiny house
of spiders’ nests and trash. …
