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Without the Legislature taking a single vote, Oregon corporations finished the 2005 legislative session scoring a 23 percent reduction in
On the 40th anniversary month of Medicaid’s creation, health care providers, Medicaid recipients, health insurers and state officials joined together
Medicaid is the nation’s major public health program for low-income Americans, financing health and long-term care services for more than
A group of thirty-eight Oregon organizations representing a range of providers and consumer groups who have first hand knowledge of
Since 1989, corporations that increase eligible research and development (R&D) spending in Oregon over a certain base amount get a
What’s wrong with this picture? The country has gone from a projected surplus to deficit in just four years.
Oregon's Constitution prohibits the state Legislative Assembly from delegating law-making authority to Congress, except with regard to the income tax.
The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 included the largest single tax cut for corporate America in years, a new
Widely cited rankings of state business climates are so deeply flawed as to be meaningless, according to a new book
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Tripling Union Membership Would Transform the Nation
A big increase in union membership would go a long way in fixing what’s wrong with the economy, according to
August 13, 2026

Oregonians Will Go Hungry as SNAP Implodes
Roughly 70,000 Oregonians have already dropped off the SNAP program since 2025, because of the Trump administration enacting the biggest
July 9, 2026

U.S. at 250: Toward a Third Reconstruction
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, what kind of country do we want to become? We speak with
June 25, 2026
