Forecast shows it’s time to be bold on kicker reform
Today’s Oregon Economic and Revenue Forecast leaves little doubt that the “kicker” — an unplanned tax rebate favoring Oregon’s richest taxpayers — is on its way.
May 19, 2021
Alejandro Queral
Alejandro Queral is Executive Director of the Oregon Center for Public Policy
Two sides of racist oppression: violence and economic policy
Words are insufficient to express our outrage and sadness over recent events in our country. Over the past months we have witnessed violent attacks against Asian Americans, including a doubling of reported hate crimes against Asian Americans in Oregon from January to February of this year.
May 5, 2021
A better reality for Oregonians requires flipping the tax system
As vaccines for COVID-19 make their way into the arms of Americans, a sense of normality feels within reach. But going back to normal is not what working Oregonians need. We
April 7, 2021
A tumultuous year can open the door to a brighter future
How will historians depict the year 2020? I have been pondering this for the last few months, perhaps as a way of processing all that’s happened in this tumultuous year.
And it’s no wonder. The events of the last 12 months – a deadly pandemic, a global economic freeze, a racial reckoning – are more than life-altering. They are history-disrupting.
December 28, 2020
Economic inequality weakens our nation
Just as COVID-19 poses greater risk to patients with preexisting conditions, the same may be said of communities. When COVID-19 arrived in the U.S. eight months ago, it found a nation afflicted by a preexisting condition: Economic inequality.
November 10, 2020
In solidarity with Black Americans and communities of color
In these traumatic times for our nation, we find hope in the many Americans who have stood up and demanded the end of police violence against Black Americans. The Oregon Center for Public Policy stands in solidarity with Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities who suffer repression at the hands of law enforcement agencies.
June 1, 2020
From crisis to crossroads
Every crisis, no matter the depths of despair, creates a new opportunity. And the most impactful way to seize that opportunity is to change public policy.
April 30, 2020
Opportunities lost after the boycott of the 2020 legislative session
Last week, the short legislative session ended without substantive progress on issues of critical importance to Oregon’s working families. Republicans in both legislative chambers left the building to prevent the
March 12, 2020
Dismantling racial inequities requires better data
When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial to deliver his famed I Have a Dream speech, he called for bold action that would open the “great vaults of opportunity” that America promised for all.
January 20, 2020
A solution to a key aspect of the housing crisis
U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer recently issued a report outlining an ambitious plan to tackle the housing crisis in America. While federal action on many of the areas highlighted in the report would be a step in the right direction, the current political landscape makes it hard to see Congress acting with any sense of urgency. Clearly, Oregon cannot let up in responding to a housing crisis that is undermining the ability of Oregonians to make ends meet, let alone get ahead.
September 18, 2019