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Unless the Oregon legislature intervenes, some very rich business owners will receive a new tax cut from the state, just
Statement by Alejandro Queral, Executive Director of the Oregon Center for Public Policy Today’s Economic and Revenue Forecast removes any
Immigrant workers without legal status perform essential work; they are part of our community. Yet they are excluded from Unemployment
Last week, a fight over a ballot measure to fund services for people experiencing homelessness in the Portland metropolitan area
Every crisis, no matter the depths of despair, creates a new opportunity. And the most impactful way to seize that
Suspending the Oregon Corporate Activity Tax (CAT), as some in the business community have urged, would undermine school funding at
In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and resulting economic crash, Congress has passed multiple response bills since the pandemic
Even before Congress had finished enacting the largest federal response yet to the coronavirus crisis, it was clear that this
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