
Business Climate and Minimum Wage
Center policy analyst Tyler MacInnis sat down with Ken Adams, host of The Valley View, and talked about Oregon’s business climate and the imperative to increase the minimum wage.

Center policy analyst Tyler MacInnis sat down with Ken Adams, host of The Valley View, and talked about Oregon’s business climate and the imperative to increase the minimum wage.

Work is not a sure path out of poverty. The official poverty line, based on a formula developed in the early 1960s, underestimates what it takes to make ends meet today.

Economic growth in recent years has done little to reduce the share of Oregonians living in poverty. Oregon’s poverty rate in 2013 ebbed only slightly from the high-water mark set in 2011.

It’s unfortunate that some Oregon lawmakers are pushing to cut the tax rate on income from capital gains. Several legislative proposals exist to grant preferential treatment to income generated from the sale of assets such as stocks, bonds and real estate.