Watch this short (3 min.) video in which small business owners from communities across Oregon — members of the Main Street Alliance of Oregon — urge lawmakers to extend and improve the Oregon Earned Income Tax Credit.

Watch this short (3 min.) video in which small business owners from communities across Oregon — members of the Main Street Alliance of Oregon — urge lawmakers to extend and improve the Oregon Earned Income Tax Credit.
Chuck Sheketoff is a founder of the Oregon Center for Public Policy and former Executive Director. Incorporated in 1995, the Center was launched with Chuck as its first executive director after Chuck received the "public interest pioneer award" from the Stern Family Fund in September, 1997. Prior to starting the Center, Chuck lobbied the Oregon legislature on tax policies and on human services programs' policies and budgets on behalf of legal aid clients (1992 to 1996) and the low-income clients of the Oregon Law Center (1997).
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