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With unemployment rising in Oregon and the nation, a new study out today reported that the cost of continuing employer-provided
Let’s say you often bike to work and your Oldsmobile stays in the garage half the work week. On a
Moneyed Oregon families have one more reason to pop open the champagne for the New Year, when a law cutting
Oregon’s lowest-paid workers will get some help in making ends meet starting on New Year’s Day, when a 45-cent hike
With a congressional debate on the scope of a federal economic recovery package nearing, Oregon advocates urged lawmakers to aid
Read the report Rolling Up Our Sleeves: Building an Oregon That Works for Working Families. A great task awaits Oregonians,
News Release It used to be that economic growth and increased productivity translated into gains for ordinary working families, but
Sure, New York has brought us some Big Apple-sized stinkers of late, from the Wall Street derivative house of cards
Only a handful of Oregonians are subject to the federal estate tax, and their ranks will shrink further next year,
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