Oregon’s minimum wage will inch up 15 cents to $9.25 an hour in the new year.
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The Washington Post has been running an excellent series on what ails the middle class, called Liftoff & Letdown.
Testimony of Janet Bauer, Policy Analyst, Oregon Center for Public Policy, House Committee on Health Care, December 8, 2014
Work is not a sure path out of poverty. The official poverty line, based on a formula developed in the
Some 10,000 low-income Oregonians would gain health insurance and tens of thousands more would see sharply reduced health insurance costs
Economic growth in recent years has done little to reduce the share of Oregonians living in poverty. Oregon’s poverty rate
Nine out of 10 poor Oregon Latino families with children had at least one parent in the family who worked
Work, sadly, is by no means a ticket out of poverty — a fact that is particularly true for Oregon
At the Oregon Center for Public Policy, we believe that all Oregon children should have access to health care services.
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