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Chair Gelser Blouin, Vice-Chair Robinson, Members of the Committee: My name is Janet Bauer, Director of Policy Research for the
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Measure 116 would change who sets salaries for state elected officials
Measure 116 would create an independent commission that would decide the salaries for lawmakers, the governor and other state elected officials.
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No taxes on tips is a bad idea. And where does tipping come from anyway?
No taxes on tips, as an Oregon Senator recently proposed, would do little to help struggling workers.
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What Measure 118 gets right and what it doesn’t
This episode of Policy for the People takes a deep dive into Measure 118, the Oregon Rebate.
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Will Congress heed the warning call on hunger?
It is said that hunger is the canary in the coal mine of household economic suffering. For cash-strapped families left