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Charles Sheketoff

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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Corporate Accountability Reporting

Oregon’s corporate income tax system is broken. It is so riddled with loopholes that big corporations today are paying a fraction of the income taxes, as a share of their profits, that they paid in Oregon a generation ago.

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Is Intel Bluffing?

Washington County commissioners are proposing to sign a new “Strategic Investment Program” tax break agreement with Intel. In response to Intel’s thinly veiled threats to abandon Oregon, the commissioners are planning to give away $579 million of property taxes that are dedicated to funding public services.

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Milk Matters?

Do you make life-changing decisions based on dairy prices? Is the price of milk a factor in whether you have more children? Buy a car? Move to a new house? Go back to school? Give to charity?

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Beware the Snake Oil Salesmen

Watch out Oregon, the snake oil salesmen are rolling into town, with old medicine in a new bottle: “The Price of Government: Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis,” by David Osborne and Peter Hutchinson.

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