Oregon's biggest housing program, the mortgage interest deduction, does nothing to ease the state's long-running housing crisis. That's because this
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Oregon is a prosperous state in one of history’s richest nations, and yet many Oregonians struggle to meet their basic
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On Women’s History Month, Policy for the People explores the gender biases in the tax code and reforms that can
For more than two decades, the Oregon Center for Public Policy has fought for and won policies that reduce economic
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