It’s time to bring back wage boards
Wage boards don’t replace the need for collective bargaining, but complement it by offering a way to overcome barriers to unionizing
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HB 2009: Business Tax Incentives Compromise
Co-Chairs Meek and Nathanson, Vice-Chairs, and Members of the Committee, My name is Daniel Hauser (he/him), Deputy Director for the Oregon Center for Public Policy and I respectfully submit this testimony in support with amendments of HB 2009 on behalf of the Center. The Oregon Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank dedicated
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Fix the Kicker
Chair Meek, Vice-Chair Boquist, and Members of the Committee, My name is Daniel Hauser (he/him), Deputy Director for the Oregon Center for Public Policy and I respectfully submit this testimony on Oregon’s kicker policy. The Oregon Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank dedicated to improving the economic outcomes for all Oregonians, particularly
HB 3235A: Advance the Oregon Kids’ Credit
The data and the stories agree: Parents and children across the state need help to afford their basic needs, and the Oregon Kids’ Credit is an efficient and effective way to do it. Please advance HB 3235A with the -10 amendments and create the Oregon Kids’ Credit.
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Efforts to advance guaranteed income program in Oregon get $1.2 million boost
The Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP) and the Urban League of Portland (ULPDX) have received a $1.2 million grant over the next four years to advance a guaranteed income campaign in Oregon.
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(Podcast) What’s at stake for Oregonians in the debt ceiling negotiations
The clock is ticking on the nation’s ability to pay its debts, as U.S. House Republicans refuse to raise the debt ceiling unless Democrats and the White House agree to steep budget cuts.
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Oregonians must protect one of the few taxes on extreme wealth
[This commentary was first published in Street Roots.] Recently, a bipartisan group of lawmakers tried short-circuiting the legislative process to deliver a coup on behalf of Oregon’s wealthiest. They attempted to send a bill repealing Oregon’s estate tax straight to the floor for a vote, skipping the usual review of legislation. Thankfully, the majority rejected this
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How to pay for it? Make wealthy corporations pay what they owe
Making Oregonians more economically secure requires investing in our well-being: housing, education, child care, and more. One fair way to pay for these investments is to make big corporations pay what they owe, while lowering taxes on small businesses.
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Massive tax rebates for the super-rich is not in the best interest of Oregonians
Today’s Oregon Economic and Revenue Forecast confirms that a record-shattering, $5.5 billion kicker is on the way. This unprecedented level of resources going out in tax rebates will do little to address the needs of Oregonians, and instead will further swell the accounts of the richest Oregonians.
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(Podcast) Tax policy fuels extreme wealth inequality: two examples
Over the past four-and-a-half decades, we have seen economic inequality return with a vengeance. We’re living through a new Gilded Age, comparable to the one at the turn of the 19th Century. The first Gilded Age was the age of Rockefeller and Carnegie; ours is the age of Bezos and Knight. The return of extreme wealth inequality is the result of public policy choices, not least decisions in how we tax the superrich.
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