Researchers have long wondered what would happen if we gave people cash with no strings attached. The proliferation of research on basic income programs in recent years has added to
“Our situation is very difficult,” Marisela testified in Salem earlier this year. A worker at a tree nursery in Forest Grove, she told lawmakers that working 12 or even 14
The Republican budget reconciliation bill leave Oregon children sicker, hungrier, and more likely to live in poverty
Chair Gelser Blouin, Vice-Chair Linthicum, and Members of the Committee, My name is Tyler Mac Innis, Policy Analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this
House Bill 2958 would double the state’s match of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit and extend it to workers arbitrarily excluded from the credit
Chair Grayber, Vice-Chair Elmer, Vice-Chair Muñoz, and Members of the Committee, My name is Tyler Mac Innis, Policy Analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit
Chair Prozanski, Vice-Chair Thatcher, and Members of the Committee, My name is Tyler Mac Innis, Policy Analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this testimony
Chair Hartman, Vice-Chairs Scharf and Nguyen, and Members of the Committee, My name is Tyler Mac Innis, Policy Analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit
The Oregon Kids’ Credit can be worth up to $1,000 per eligible child.
By several measures, income inequality in Oregon has never been greater. In 2021, the year with the most recent data, the income flowing to Oregon’s richest 1 percent set a