House Bill 2958 would double the state’s match of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit and extend it to workers arbitrarily excluded from the credit
The revival of an old idea is offering hope for improving pay and working conditions in entire industries all at once. That policy is often referred to as Workforce Standards Boards. In this episode of Policy for the People, Ira Cuello-Martinez of PCUN, Oregon’s Farmworker Union, discusses the tough working conditions that farmworkers in Oregon
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Chair Grayber, Vice-Chairs Elmer and Munoz, and Members of the Committee, My name is Kathy Lara, Policy Analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this testimony in support of House Bill 2548 on behalf of the Center. The Oregon Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank that uses
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Chair Grayber, Vice-Chair Elmer, Vice-Chair Muñoz, and Members of the Committee, My name is Tyler Mac Innis, Policy Analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this testimony in support of HB 3193 on behalf of the Center. The Oregon Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank dedicated to
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My name is Kathy Lara, Policy Analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this testimony in support of HB 3194 on behalf of the Center. The Oregon Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank that uses research and analysis to improve the economic outcomes for all Oregonians, especially
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Chair Prozanski, Vice-Chair Thatcher, and Members of the Committee, My name is Tyler Mac Innis, Policy Analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this testimony in support of SB 599 on behalf of the Center. The Oregon Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank that uses research and
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These are dangerous times. For the first time in its nearly 250-year history, the United States is staring at the abyss of an autocratic state. There is indeed a fork in the road: we either defend the democracy that, for generations, has been a beacon for other countries, or we give in to authoritarianism and
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Chair Prozanski, Vice-Chair Thatcher, and Members of the Committee, My name is Kathy Lara, Policy Analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this testimony in support of Senate Bill 426 on behalf of the Center. The Oregon Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank that uses research and
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Chair Reynolds, Vice-Chair Anderson, and Members of the Committee, My name is Daniel Hauser, Deputy Director for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this testimony in support of SB 694 on behalf of the Center. The Oregon Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank that uses research and analysis
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Chair Nathanson, Vice-Chairs Reschke and Walters, and Members of the Committee, My name is Daniel Hauser, Deputy Director for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this testimony in support of HB 2958 on behalf of the Center. The Oregon Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank that uses research
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