HB 4093 would establish the Genuine Progress Indicator, a consistent measure of the well-being of Oregonians.
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In this episode of Policy for the People, OCPP Executive Director Alejandro Queral discusses the most recently available figures on
Oregon entered the pandemic debilitated by a chronic condition: income inequality. In 2019, the richest 1 percent of Oregonians together
The following are the 2021 Federal Poverty Income Guidelines, informally referred to as the "federal poverty level." The guidelines determine
A century after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of the
Many more Oregonians are going hungry this Thanksgiving than at any time in recent memory, new figures from the U.S.
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Before the arrival of COVID-19, the richest Oregonians had set a new record in terms of their yearly income haul.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic upended the economy, the income of Oregon’s ultra-rich had set yet another record. In 2018, the
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