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The Success of Oregon’s Minimum Wage and the Need for Reform Executive Summary The successful 1996 initiative to increase Oregon’s
Executive Summary Oregon’s “highest in the nation” minimum wage continues to raise wages for former welfare recipients and other low-wage
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Oregon’s subsidized child care program, Employment Related Day Care (ERDC), is on course to run out of money in less
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