Measure 97's defeat in the November election does not change the fact that corporations in Oregon are paying far too
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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
We’ve been getting lots of questions from folks about Measure 97 at presentations and by phone and email, and rightly
Clueless. Absolutely clueless. Someone — it's not clear exactly who — had the idea of bringing Kansas Governor Sam Brownback
It was 2009. The Great Recession had hammered Oregon’s finances. The Oregon legislature faced a choice. It could slash the
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