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Download a PDF of this fact sheet. Cash is an effective tool to help families afford the ever-rising cost of
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Oregon spent nearly $11 billion over the past decade on kicker tax rebates, with more than 62 percent of that
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Income inequality in Oregon remains vast, but history shows this is not inevitable.
The decades-long trend of rising income inequality remains in place.
One in seven Oregonians is food insecure, and recent congressional action threatens to worsen hunger
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