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You’d think that the guy who popularized the kooky, destructive and widely discredited notion that tax cuts pay for themselves
Pop quiz: If you compare Oregon’s economic growth from 2001 to 2010 to that of the nine states in the
OCPP tallies claims against construction, information, hotel and restaurant industries
Wage claims filed with state authorities provide a glimpse of the serious problem of wage theft in Oregon. Wage theft
Last-minute decisions often do not yield good public policy. Congress has demonstrated this repeatedly. Consider last summer’s raise-the-debt-ceiling circus.
More than 100,000 low-paid Oregon workers will get a raise starting in the new year, when a 30-cent increase to
There are many ways to analyze the growing income inequality gap in Oregon. Here is one that could leave you
The latest iteration of the Oregon Business Plan prepared for the 2011 Leadership Summit, a gathering of Oregon business and
New data from the U.S. Department of Labor shows that 46,700 Oregonians will loose federal unemployment insurance benefits under the
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