Recently, more Oregonians became officially “poor,” following publication of new federal poverty guidelines. These guidelines offer an important — albeit
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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
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Daniel Hauser joined Geoffrey Riley on Jefferson Public Radio's Jefferson Exchange to discuss the impacts to Oregonians of the federal
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Income inequality remains, in the words of President Barack Obama, “the defining challenge of our time.”
As 2017 comes to a close, we look back on the Center’s publications that proved most popular with Oregonians. Here
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