My name is Janet Bauer, Director of Policy Research at the Oregon Center for Public Policy. I respectfully submit this testimony in support of SB 1543 on behalf of the Center.
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My name is Janet Bauer, Director of Policy Research at the Oregon Center for Public Policy. I respectfully submit this testimony in support of farmworker overtime pay on behalf of the Center. We support some but not all of the provisions of House Bill 4002 as introduced. Our position on the bill is neutral until amended, as described below.
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My name is Daniel Hauser, Director of Strategic Policy Projects for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this testimony in support of Senate Bill 1569 with the dash one amendments on behalf of the Center.
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My name is Janet Bauer, Director of Policy Research at the Oregon Center for Public Policy. I respectfully submit this testimony in support of HB 4117 on behalf of the Center.
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My name is Janet Bauer, Director of Policy Research for the Oregon Center for Public Policy. I respectfully submit this testimony in support of SB 1510 on behalf of the Center.
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A little over a year ago, when much of the economy remained shut due to the Covid pandemic, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a memo outlining the jobs “essential” to the nation’s “critical infrastructure.”
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News Release Oregon ranked next to last in terms of the share of families qualifying for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) who actually claim it, according to an analysis by the Oregon Center for Public Policy of 2018 data. This continued Oregon’s long-standing pattern of poor results, underscoring the need for state action to remove barriers
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[This issue brief was updated on April 4, 2022.] Oregon families are among the least likely to benefit from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) — a tax credit designed for families surviving on low wages. In 2018, only one state had worse EITC participation than Oregon. That year, more than one in four eligible
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The legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one defined by a demand for justice and a call to serve. He saw the structural changes needed in our society, and called on all of us to do more than simple charity, to act in service of our neighbors and communities.
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Despite often performing work considered essential to the nation’s critical infrastructure, undocumented workers live under the constant fear of deportation.
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