Today, low-income working families achieved a significant victory with the Oregon Senate’s approval of Senate Bill 398-B in a bipartisan vote of 23 in favor and seven against.
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With the clock ticking on an Oregon legislative session that has yet to resolve a $1.4 billion revenue shortfall, the business lobby got an opportunity last Thursday to offer its solution to the problem. The testimony of a Brighter Oregon, a business coalition, took up the entire meeting of the legislature’s Joint Committee on Tax Reform.
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Life will get even harder for thousands of Oregon’s poorest children if lawmakers fail to fill the state’s revenue gap.
Tell lawmakers: don’t harm 11,000 of Oregon’s poorest kids Read More »
School districts in Oregon have been drawing up plans for staff cuts, in case the Oregon legislature fails to come up with the revenue needed to fill a $1.4 billion state revenue hole. And according to several teachers who spoke during a town hall in Portland this past Saturday, pink slips have already started landing in some schools.
Pink slips for teachers, a big tax cut for the wealthy Read More »
If Oregonians needed a reminder of how reckless the Oregon kicker law is, today we got it in the state economists’ latest economic and revenue forecast.
It’s time to suspend Oregon’s stability-wrecking “kicker” Read More »
Poor children don’t have a megaphone. They can’t create a dark money-funded group to pay for TV ads that attack lawmakers for their ideas.
Small voices with a big stake in state budget outcome Read More »
About one out of seven jobs in Oregon are state or local government jobs — a slightly lower ratio than more than two decades ago. Since 1990, Oregon’s working-age population and private sector jobs have both grown slightly faster than state and local government jobs.
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The Oregon House leadership should be commended for putting forward a bold revenue proposal that would improve the lives of Oregonians. Their Oregon Education Investment Initiative would not only help fill the existing budget gap, but also result in about $2 billion in new investments, mostly in education — from pre-K to higher education. The funds would come from a tax on gross receipts for businesses with Oregon sales above $5 million a year. The proposal would also eliminate the corporate income tax and reduce the personal income taxes of low- and middle-income Oregonians.
A gross receipts tax? Oregon already has one Read More »
Life would become even harder for thousands of Oregon’s poorest children if lawmakers fail to fill a budget gap.
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May Day, for some Americans, is a celebration of spring’s arrival, replete with bright flowers and maypoles. But for many around the world, May 1st is International Worker’s Day. It commemorates the deaths of protestors fighting for an eight-hour workday in Chicago’s Haymarket Square in 1886.