Work — even full-time work — is no sure path out of poverty. Most poor families in Oregon are working families, including many who have at least one full-time working parent.
More Oregon Families Cannot Escape Poverty Despite Full-Time Work Read More »
One measure of the progress Oregon has made in health care is the scale of the damage that would be done by its undoing.
Trump’s Obamacare Repeal Would Harm Oregon’s Budget, Economy, and Residents Read More »
Oregon recorded the sharpest increase in food insecurity of any state, even as nationally the share of families struggling to put food on the table declined and the Oregon economy grew.
Oregon’s Spike in Food Insecurity Worst Among All States Read More »
Measure 97’s defeat in the November election does not change the fact that corporations in Oregon are paying far too little in taxes.
Our report The Gaming and Decline of Oregon Corporate Taxes is just as relevant as ever.
Gaming and Decline of Oregon Corporate Taxes Read More »
Here at the Oregon Center for Public Policy, we’re wasting no time thinking about — and advocating for — a path forward after the defeat of Measure 97.
While disappointing, the defeat was not much of a surprise. The “no” side, flush with tens of millions of corporate dollars, bombarded the Oregon electorate with a barrage of simple but misleading messages. Corporate Oregon apparently doesn’t think facts ought to matter.
The path forward after Measure 97 Read More »
November 8, 2016, will be remembered as a dark day in Oregon history. An avalanche of corporate-funded misinformation buried the best chance in over two decades to finally confront the chronic under-funding of our public schools and other public services. Corporate money won; the people of Oregon lost.
Measure 97 underscores need for corporate tax transparency Read More »
The Great Recession slammed Oregon public schools, causing teacher layoffs and exacerbating the overcrowding of classrooms. Six years after the
economic crisis, school funding in Oregon had yet to return to pre-recession levels, according to a new study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The present and past funding of Oregon’s schools Read More »
Gosh, if we only had a way to buy products from national retailers while sitting at our computers, then corporations wouldn’t be able to pass along that Measure 97 tax . . .
What did you say, Costco? There’s a thing called “the Internet?” Read More »
Comcast, Wells Fargo, Chevron and other corporations are spending millions of dollars trying to scare you into thinking that Measure 97 will cost you about $600. Rest assured: it’s just a scare tactic.
Why the misleading $600 figure is just a scare tactic Read More »
The corporate-funded opposition to Measure 97 doesn’t seem to care about facts and consistency. Case in point: an op-ed in The Oregonian by ECONorthwest’s John Tapogna, who represents the Oregon Business Council in the Measure 97 campaign.
The disingenuous opposition to Measure 97 Read More »