Today marks Oregon’s first official celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Earlier this year, the Oregon legislation created this new state holiday to recognize the significant contributions of tribal nations. For too long, textbooks have glorified colonization and promoted harmful stereotypes and misinformation about indigenous peoples, their history and culture. This is one of the forms of oppression […]
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In the latest episode of Policy for the People, we discuss the Build Back Better legislation before Congress with Samantha Jacoby of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and OCPP’s Alejandro Queral.
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In the latest episode of Policy for the People, we explore the problem of poor quality jobs — jobs that pay too little to adequately support a family and that often come with few if any benefits. OCPP Senior Policy Analyst Janet Bauer explains the dimensions of the problem and what Oregon can do to address it.
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On the eve of the pandemic, at a time when Oregon enjoyed one of the strongest job markets on record, more than half of all jobs in the state paid too little to adequately support a family. Many of those jobs also failed to offer enough hours of work or benefits like health insurance, according
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Executive summary On the eve of the pandemic, a time when the nation was experiencing the longest economic boom on record, poor quality jobs predominated in Oregon. In 2019, more than half of all jobs paid too little to adequately support a family. Many of these jobs not only paid poorly, they offered insufficient hours
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In this episode of Policy for the People, OCPP Executive Director Alejandro Queral discusses the most recently available figures on inequality, why economic inequality harms Oregonians, and what kinds of policies changes are needed to shrink inequality.
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Oregon entered the pandemic debilitated by a chronic condition: income inequality. In 2019, the richest 1 percent of Oregonians together collected more income than the bottom half of Oregonians combined, maintaining a wide breach between the richest and most everyone else.
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Today is a momentous day in our nation’s efforts to confront poverty. On this day, families begin receiving monthly payments from a more robust federal Child Tax Credit — a change that promises to reduce economic hardship and improve the life prospects for millions of children.
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Undocumented workers in Oregon are more likely than not to perform work considered essential during the pandemic, yet they have been left out of federal emergency assistance.
(Podcast) Undocumented workers: essential yet excluded Read More »
The just-concluded Oregon legislative session featured important victories, as well as missed opportunities. The American Rescue Plan Act, enacted by Congress in January, sent billions of dollars to state governments to ease the strain caused by the pandemic. Without a doubt, Congress rescued the economy and spared Oregonians from the budget cuts that have often
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