There are many statistics one can summon to show how the economy is failing working Oregonians. But few are more
Poverty & Inequality
Poverty & Inequality
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Work is not a sure path out of poverty. The official poverty line, based on a formula developed in the
Six months ago I noted the great disconnect between Nike CEO and President Mark Parker’s compensation and that of the
Catch OCPP executive director Chuck Sheketoff in AMERICAN WINTER, a documentary that follows the stories of eight Portland-area families struggling
In the last years of his life, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. waged a campaign to end economic inequality
Hear and meet one of the nation’s leading economists, Jared Bernstein, talk about income inequality, the state of the middle
Oregonians will soon get a chance to hear one of the nation’s leading economists, Jared Bernstein, give his take on
The income gap that separates Oregon’s richest families from everyone else increased over the past three decades, according to a
It is well known that the official definition of poverty, based on a formula developed in the early 1960s, undercounts
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