My name is Daniel Hauser, policy analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this testimony
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My name is Daniel Hauser, tax policy analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this
My name is Daniel Hauser, tax policy analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this
My name is Daniel Hauser, tax policy analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this
All of us deserve to be paid for our work and avoid injury on the job. We all have a
Even good public policy can be made better. That’s the case with Oregon’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), one of
Oregon can take an essential step to fix the widespread problem of corporate tax avoidance by enacting corporate tax transparency.
Oregon employers face no real downside to stealing the wages of their workers, because the state rarely penalizes them, and
Oregon employers face almost no downside to stealing the wages of workers, given that the boss rarely pays a penalty
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