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Low- and middle-wage Oregon workers have seen their paychecks shrink in the economic upswing following the end of the Great
Oregon’s minimum wage would top $19 per hour if it had kept pace with the rise in worker productivity since
Unions are one of the keys to reversing the rise of income inequality, rightly described as the “defining challenge of
A View of the State of Working Oregon For the typical Oregonian, economic progress is a distant memory. More than
At a recent City Club of Portland talk, the former chief financial correspondent of The New York Times, Floyd Norris,
How much income do families across Oregon need to meet basic necessities? A lot more than what the current minimum
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a stirring call to end racial segregation, was also a
This month we celebrate Medicaid, brought into being on July 30, 1965.
Oregon consumers have rated all Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs), the centerpiece of the state’s health care “transformation.”
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