While Oregon families have seen their Oregon 529 plans turn into 0.529 plans, their 401K plans turn into 0.401K plans, their homes’ values shrink, and interest rates on their savings accounts and CDs drop to next to nothing, taxpayers in the State of Oregon have been helping Wal-Mart make a nice return on its money.
While Your Investments Were Shrinking . . . .You Helped Wal-Mart Read More »
Additional improvements to the system are still needed, says OCPP
New Law Makes More Oregonians Eligible for Unemployment Benefits Read More »
Political operatives in Oregon and across the country planning “Tea Parties” to protest taxes and the public structures they support would get a failing grade in history class, according to the Oregon Center for Public Policy.
Anti-Tax “Tea Parties” Draw Wrong Lesson From History Read More »
In a hilarious (albeit adult-only) skit on how the British government should address a fiscal deficit with taxation (youtube.com link), Monty Python’s Terry Jones says “To boost the British economy, I’d tax all foreigners living abroad.” (family-friendly WMV of just quote).
Here’s Hoping for a Monty Python Tax Read More »
Oregon’s Breast and Cervical Cancer Medical Program (BCCM) lets women diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer enroll in Medicaid for treatment if they have limited income and no insurance. That’s good policy.
It Shouldn’t Matter Who Paid for Screening Read More »
It is well known that early detection of breast and cervical cancer through proper screening increases survival rates.
SB 892 Aims to Save Women’s Lives Read More »
Some months ago I learned through the newspaper that my bank had gone belly up, one more casualty of the economic crisis.
The Lesson in My Bank’s Failure Read More »
It won’t feel like an April shower of money, but by the first day of the month the new Making Work Pay Credit established by the federal recovery legislation will be in full effect, delivering a steady drip of additional dollars to most Oregon workers for two years.
New Tax Credit Fully Kicks In for 1.3 Million Oregonians Read More »
HB 3140 would temporarily let workers collect unemployment benefits as soon as they are eligible, rather requiring them to wait a week. By suspending an outdated feature of the unemployment system, it would put benefits in the hands of laid-off workers sooner and allow them to collect the full amount of benefits to which they
HB 3045 Addresses the Special Hardship Unemployment Imposes on Families With Kids Read More »
HB 3140 would temporarily let workers collect unemployment benefits as soon as they are eligible, rather requiring them to wait a week. By suspending an outdated feature of the unemployment system, it would put benefits in the hands of laid-off workers sooner and allow them to collect the full amount of benefits to which they
HB 3140 Suspends Outmoded Waiting Period to Collect Unemployment Benefits Read More »
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