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By eliminating a law known as the “throwback rule,” a bill currently in the Oregon legislature would create a new
Recently, more Oregonians became officially “poor,” following publication of new federal poverty guidelines. These guidelines offer an important — albeit
In the latest installment of Fourth Friday Focus, a collaboration between KMUZ radio and the Oregon Center for Public Policy,
Imagine that you could line up every single Oregon household struggling to pay the rent. Then, alongside them, you lined
Here at the Center, we keep our ear to the ground to learn what questions people have about important policy
Last week, the East Oregonian ran an article illustrating a big part of what’s at stake in the vote on
The federal tax plan that Congress recently passed is stuffed with tax cuts for the wealthy, and one of the
Daniel Hauser joined Geoffrey Riley on Jefferson Public Radio's Jefferson Exchange to discuss the impacts to Oregonians of the federal
Is it fair to put the health security of over one million Oregonians at risk without offering any concrete, viable
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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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In this episode, we examine the crisis in Oregon’s system of long-term care. Demand for long-term care is rising as
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