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House Bill 2958 would double the state’s match of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit and extend it to workers
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Chair Grayber, Vice-Chairs Elmer and Munoz, and Members of the Committee, My name is Kathy Lara, Policy Analyst for the
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My name is Kathy Lara, Policy Analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this testimony
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At a time when the cost of food and other essentials has been on the rise, our nation’s most important
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Tripling Union Membership Would Transform the Nation
A big increase in union membership would go a long way in fixing what’s wrong with the economy, according to
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The real fork in the road
These are dangerous times. For the first time in its nearly 250-year history, the United States is staring at the