
Two investments in children would create brighter future for them and the state
The 2025 Oregon legislature can help ensure that children have a good start in life by strengthening Employment Related Day Care and the Oregon Earned Income Tax Credit.

The 2025 Oregon legislature can help ensure that children have a good start in life by strengthening Employment Related Day Care and the Oregon Earned Income Tax Credit.

As the year approaches, we recap some of our accomplishments over the past 12 months and preview the upcoming year.

Measure 118 would do more harm than good.

If you don’t mind vast inequality, where the rich amass ever larger fortunes, then the current kicker is for you. But if you truly care about the well-being of working Oregonians and wish to see an economy that works for all, work to make the Working Families Kicker a reality.

Women still make only 84 cents for every dollar men earn.

Statement by OCPP Executive Director Alejandro Queral on proposal to expand the Child Tax Credit A congressional deal to expand the Child Tax Credit announced yesterday would benefit some

On July 1, workers in one region of Oregon achieved what once seemed an inspired goal. The minimum wage in the Portland metro area — not in the rest of the state — crossed the $15 an hour level, reaching $15.45.

Today’s Oregon Economic and Revenue Forecast confirms that a record-shattering, $5.5 billion kicker is on the way. This unprecedented level of resources going out in tax rebates will do little to address the needs of Oregonians, and instead will further swell the accounts of the richest Oregonians.

Now that Tax Day is behind us, audit season has begun. The IRS will flag some tax returns for closer scrutiny. And, as a recent study by researchers at Stanford University, University

[This op-ed was originally published in the Portland Business Journal] As working families across Oregon struggle with rising costs and meager wages, Oregon is on course to send massive tax rebates
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