Chair Dembrow, Vice-Chair Weber, and Members of the Committee, On behalf of the Oregon Center for Public Policy, I respectfully submit this testimony in support of SB 283 with the
This week, Congress failed to pass a permanent expansion of the Child Tax Credit. As a result, nearly 19 million kids (including 192,000 children in Oregon) have lost all or
We are appalled by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Reversing nearly 50 years of legal precedent protecting the right to an abortion will have deep
Every day, Oregonians throughout the state wake up anxious about difficult decisions that await them and their families. Should they use their last few dollars to buy food or keep
After months of cajoling, vote wrangling and arm twisting, Congress is nearing the final lap of the legislative marathon that is the Build Back Better Act.
The “kicker” — an unplanned tax rebate favoring Oregon’s richest taxpayers — is almost surely on its way. The latest Oregon Economic and Revenue Forecast projects a $1.4 billion kicker.
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.
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.
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
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.