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One measure of the progress Oregon has made in health care is the scale of the damage that would be
Oregon recorded the sharpest increase in food insecurity of any state, even as nationally the share of families struggling to
Measure 97's defeat in the November election does not change the fact that corporations in Oregon are paying far too
Here at the Oregon Center for Public Policy, we’re wasting no time thinking about — and advocating for — a
November 8, 2016, will be remembered as a dark day in Oregon history. An avalanche of corporate-funded misinformation buried the
The Great Recession slammed Oregon public schools, causing teacher layoffs and exacerbating the overcrowding of classrooms. Six years after the
Gosh, if we only had a way to buy products from national retailers while sitting at our computers, then corporations
Comcast, Wells Fargo, Chevron and other corporations are spending millions of dollars trying to scare you into thinking that Measure
The corporate-funded opposition to Measure 97 doesn’t seem to care about facts and consistency. Case in point: an op-ed in
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