Life will get even harder for thousands of Oregon’s poorest children if lawmakers fail to fill the state's revenue gap.
Raising Incomes
Realizing our human potential depends on having the resources to meet our material needs. Raising the incomes of the lowest-paid workers not only increases economic opportunity but also makes for a more prosperous state.
Raising Incomes
Realizing our human potential depends on having the resources to meet our material needs. Raising the incomes of the lowest-paid workers not only increases economic opportunity but also makes for a more prosperous state.
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Poor children don’t have a megaphone. They can’t create a dark money-funded group to pay for TV ads that attack
Life would become even harder for thousands of Oregon’s poorest children if lawmakers fail to fill a budget gap.
Last year, 21,000 school children in Oregon experienced homelessness. The same fate befell another 1,900 pre-school kids.
The Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP) supports Senate Bill 398 and its effort to increase the use of the
Oregon ranks near the bottom when it comes to the share of qualifying families that claim the federal Earned Income
Of all working families across the country, Oregon working families are among the least likely to claim the federal Earned
A growing number of Oregon families are unable to escape poverty despite having a full-time worker, according to the Oregon
Work — even full-time work — is no sure path out of poverty. Most poor families in Oregon are working
Oregon recorded the sharpest increase in food insecurity of any state, even as nationally the share of families struggling to
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