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When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial to deliver his famed I
In the years to come, Oregonians could be on the hook for massive subsidies to wealthy investors, as a result
The number of taxpayers reporting annual income of $1 million or more has risen faster in Oregon than any other
Oregon could solve some of the worst aspects of the state’s housing affordability crisis by investing in a rent assistance
More than a quarter-million jobs in Oregon will pay more starting July 1, when a scheduled minimum wage increase takes
About a quarter-million Oregon working families face a tax increase if Senators in the minority fail to return to Salem
The national oddity that is Oregon’s “kicker” law is on its way to hand huge bonuses to the richest Oregonians
My name is Daniel Hauser, tax policy analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this
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