How’s the labor market this Labor Day?
Here in Oregon, we take Labor Day seriously. After all, we were the first state to declare it a holiday to celebrate workers and the labor movement.
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Oregon’s Labor Market: Still Room for Improvement
Although Oregon’s labor market is stronger than it has been since before the Great Recession, there is still room for improvement. Strong job growth in early 2016 lowered Oregon’s unemployment rate to levels not seen since the mid-1990s. However, the unemployment rate alone doesn’t capture the insufficient and uneven recovery of Oregon’s labor market, which keeps many working families struggling economically.
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Oregon’s jobs recovery bypasses many rural counties
Labor Day arrives as Oregon enjoys one of its strongest job markets in years, but scars from the Great Recession still linger. A new study by the Oregon Center for Public Policy shows that almost half of all Oregon counties — nearly all of them rural counties — have yet to regain the jobs lost during the downturn.
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Welfare Reform at 20: A Block Grant is No Way to Help Children in Poverty
“Welfare reform” turns 20 this month and that’s nothing to celebrate.
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What the Oregon restaurant and lodging lobby doesn’t want you (and its members) to know about Measure 97
You wouldn’t know it from the industry’s campaign spending, but the odds are remote that Oregon restaurant and lodging facilities will be paying the Measure 97 tax if voters approve the measure this fall.
The choice is clear with Measure 97: “Yes” to strengthen schools, “no” to endure budget cuts
This November, Oregonians will face a clear choice: Vote “YES” for Measure 97 or endure more than a billion dollars in cuts to schools and other key public services.
Measure 97: impact by industry
Measure 97 promises to greatly increase funding for Oregon schools, healthcare and senior services, by raising taxes on about 1,000 of the largest corporations doing business in the state. Specifically, the measure would raise taxes on C-corporations with Oregon sales in excess of $25 million per year.
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Say “No” to the Comcast Tax Con
Oregon schools are in dire need of additional resources, and they will have fewer resources still if Comcast gets its way in obtaining a tax break it doesn’t deserve.
Help us make sure Comcast doesn’t prevail by saying “no” to the Comcast tax con.
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Fantasy numbers or inconvenient truth?
Several weeks ago the Oregon legislature’s economists in the Legislative Revenue Office (LRO) came out with an estimate of how the proposal to raise taxes on large, mainly out-of-state corporations would impact the Oregon economy. While Oregon media ran with LRO’s estimated impact on jobs, they failed to recognize that the jobs estimate was fantastic, in the truest sense of the word — the jobs estimate is essentially a fantasy prediction.
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