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It’s luck, but we’ll take it. More than four years ago, the Oregon legislature scheduled a minimum wage increase to
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The City Club of Eugene held an online forum titled "What We Know (and What We Don't Know) About Post-Coronavirus
Immigrant workers without legal status perform essential work; they are part of our community. Yet they are excluded from Unemployment
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Even before Congress had finished enacting the largest federal response yet to the coronavirus crisis, it was clear that this
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