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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Welcome to Portland, Where Getting a Job Is Easy but Staying Safe Is Hard
Description: Full Text: Two of my kids are young adults working retail. They are eyewitnesses to the decline of what was once The Most Livable City in the Nation.
Over the weekend, my daughter was working her shift, when a man walked into the store and started haranguing her. He accused her of following him through the store. “I was just hanging up clothes,” she told me. When she left on break, he was hanging outside the store and berated her again. He spent most of that afternoon aggressively harassing people up and down Hawthorne Boulevard.
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