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Toward Prosperity for All Oregonians: Disconnect from Wasteful Federal Tax Breaks

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Whenever Congress creates new tax breaks for the rich and corporations, Oregon often copies the same wasteful subsidies. This is because Oregon automatically connects to federal tax law definitions. The only way to stop these new tax breaks is for the Oregon legislature to vote to reject them — to “disconnect” from them. Disconnection doesn’t eliminate the federal tax breaks; it just stops Oregon from doubling down on them.

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Toward Prosperity for All: OCPP’s 2021 legislative agenda

Our top 5 publications of 2020

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Such a hard year. Such a momentous year. 2020 may go down as a turning point in history. A worldwide pandemic, a devastating recession, the explosion of a movement for racial justice, historic wildfires, a turbulent election season. And yet the year also saw an acceleration of preexisting trends, those of widespread economic insecurity and

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A tumultuous year can open the door to a brighter future

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How will historians depict the year 2020? I have been pondering this for the last few months, perhaps as a way of processing all that’s happened in this tumultuous year.

And it’s no wonder. The events of the last 12 months – a deadly pandemic, a global economic freeze, a racial reckoning – are more than life-altering. They are history-disrupting.

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4 reasons why you should disregard the latest tax report from the Oregon big business lobby

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So massive are the property tax breaks that Intel enjoys in Oregon that no school district in the nation lost more money to tax abatements than the Hillsboro school district, The Oregonian reported a couple of years back.

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Toward Prosperity for All Oregonians: Raise Taxes on the Rich

Leave a Comment / Commentary, Income Taxes, Plans and Progress, Tax Justice

Oregon cannot achieve economic justice or eliminate racial disparities without taxing the rich. Taxing the rich is an essential step toward an Oregon where everyone lives with dignity.

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Many more Oregonians are going hungry this Thanksgiving

Leave a Comment / News Release, Poverty & Inequality, Raising Incomes

Many more Oregonians are going hungry this Thanksgiving than at any time in recent memory, new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show, underscoring the continued economic hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Our legislative agenda for 2021

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All Oregonians deserve to live in dignity — to enjoy economic security and the possibility to thrive. This is doable. Oregon, after all, is a prosperous state in one of history’s richest countries. But as the coronavirus pandemic has made clear, many Oregonians struggle to make ends meet. At a time when the income of

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Economic inequality weakens our nation

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Just as COVID-19 poses greater risk to patients with preexisting conditions, the same may be said of communities. When COVID-19 arrived in the U.S. eight months ago, it found a nation afflicted by a preexisting condition: Economic inequality.

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Oregonians would lose more than most from overturning the Affordable Care Act

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The healthcare of many Oregonians is on the line in a case soon to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. The case of California v. Texas, scheduled for oral arguments in November, could result in the court overturning the Affordable Care Act.

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