Oregon’s Semiconductor Incentives Package Should Focus on People and Place

Leave a Comment / Corporate & Business Taxes, Report, Tax Justice

In creating a package of incentives to attract chip manufacturers, the Oregon legislature should prioritize investments that will deepen the state’s talent pool, promote equity, and strengthen its infrastructure. The drive to create an incentive package stems from the congressional enactment of the CHIPS Act, which pledges tens of billions of dollars to ramp up […]

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U.S. House Republicans go to bat for wealthy tax cheaters and against the national interest

Leave a Comment / Commentary, Tax Justice, Tax Loopholes

The new House majority nearly came to blows in electing one of their own as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. But those deep fissures were nowhere to be seen days later, when they voted unanimously for a bill that would protect the rich and powerful at the expense of everyone else. Right out

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Confronting inequality is key to ending our housing crisis

Leave a Comment / Commentary, Poverty & Inequality, Raising Incomes

[This commentary first appeared in Street Roots.] When then-Portland Mayor Charlie Hales declared a housing state of emergency in 2015, many knew the housing crisis had been brewing for decades. The evidence was visible on our streets. Disinvestment in public housing and support services, a deficit of new construction, insufficient tenant protections and a shortage in

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