The sustainability movement risks being hijacked down a greenwashed road to nowhere. As an article in Advertising Age summed up the recent marketing onslaught leading up to Earth Day, “Time to consume more to save the planet.”
It’s not just the rise of eco-consumerism that might derail the sustainability movement. Recent history has witnessed not only the melting of the polar caps but also the return of economic inequality to a level unseen since just before the Great Depression. The great economic divide stands in the way of a sustainable future.
Read OCPP's April CenterPoints column, Underscore the “Us” in Sustainability.
Which public structures at DHS should get priority for additional funding? What new programs should be started? What's working, and what isn't?
Help plan the 2009-11 budget for the Oregon Department of Human Services at community forums April 23 through May 14th throughout the state.
Click here to see dates, times and locations for each community forum.
News Release: Oregon State and Local Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Harder Than Rich April 24, 2008
News Release: Walden and Hooley Act to Protect Oregon Against Medicaid Cuts,
April 18, 2008
News Release: New Data Shows Oregon's Wealthiest Pulling Away From the Rest,
April 8, 2008
Fact Sheet: Expanding the EIC in 2009, March 26, 2008
CenterPoints: A Tax System that Matches Oregon Values, March, 2008
News Release: Oregon Doubles Its Venture Capital Without Income Tax Break, March 14, 2008
Fact Sheet: New Medicaid Regulations Will Reduce Federal Health Care Dollars to Oregon, March 3, 2008
39 Oregon groups express alarm about new Medicaid rules, March 10, 2008
CenterPoints: Economic Inequality Reemerges, Opportunity Withers, by Juan Carlos Ordóñez, February 2008.
News Release: President's Proposed Budget Cuts Would Hurt Oregonians and Shift Costs to State, February 21, 2008
Issue Brief: Where Will the Pain Be? OCPP’s subprime maps can help legislators target education about foreclosure scams addressed by HB 3630, February 19, 2008
Issue Brief: Fiscal Danger Ahead: Why Oregon must decouple from the bonus depreciation business tax break to save $100 million and protect public services, February 13, 2008
News Release: Federal Business Tax Break Triggers Fiscal Emergency in Oregon, February 11, 2008
Fact Sheet: Subprime loans affect families and communities in every corner of Oregon, February 1, 2008
News Release: OCPP Finds Racial Pattern in Oregon's Subprime Lending January 31, 2008
CenterPoints: Oregon Lottery Scratch-its: The New Joe Camel by Chuck Sheketoff, January, 2008
News Release: OCPP to Poor: Gamble With Oregon Health Plan Lottery January 28, 2008
News Release: Economic Stimulus Package Leaves Oregon Exposed January 25, 2008
News Release: More to Qualify for Oregon Health Plan as Poverty Line Rises January 23, 2008
Issue Brief: No Special Treatment: Seven reasons why Oregon should not reduce or eliminate the income tax on capital gains January, 21, 2008
News Release: OCPP Finds that Cutting Income Tax on Capital Gains Would Harm Nearly All Oregonians January 21, 2008
Issue Brief: Food Insecurity and Hunger Statistics by State January 15, 2008
Issue Brief: How Big an Umbrella Does Oregon Need? January 8, 2008
May 13, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
First United Methodist Church, Eugene
Click HERE for more information about the event or click HERE to register.
Making America Stronger: The U.S. Food Stamp Program - a 14 minute video
OCPP's Bookshelf at Powell's Books
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