OCPP's tagline “Because facts matter” rejects the cynical and oft-repeated claim that the public, voters and policymakers don’t care about the facts. Now our tagline is getting national recognition, as it is among the winners of the 2008 Nonprofit Tagline Award Competition.
Read the news release OCPP's "Because facts matter" Tagline Wins National Award.
Precisely those families who need the federal Child Tax Credit the most are becoming ineligible or receiving shrinking tax benefits under current law. Organizations from across Oregon have called on U.S. Senators Gordon Smith and Ron Wyden to back proposed legislative changes that would help the families of about 155,000 Oregon children.
Read OCPP's news release Child Tax Credit Fix Would Help 155,000 Oregon Children and letter to Senators Smith and Wyden.
CenterPoints: Data and Common Sense Be Damned July, 2008
CenterPoints: The New Deal Still a Good Deal June, 2008
News Release: Low-Income Advocates Support Whitehouse on Climate Change June 5, 2008
CenterPoints: Leave No Teacher Behind, If You Want the Best Schools May, 2008
Op-Ed: Save the Timber Payments by Chopping the Tax Cuts by Janet Bauer
May 30, 2008
News Release: New Report Calculates Pay Advantage of Union Jobs in Oregon May 15, 2008
News Release: Tax Break for Wealthiest Oregonians Exceeds Lost Timber Payments May 13, 2008
CenterPoints: Underscore the "Us" in sustainability April, 2008
News Release: Oregon State and Local Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Harder Than Rich April 24, 2008
News Release: Walden and Hooley Act to Protect Oregon Against Medicaid Cuts,
April 18, 2008
News Release: New Data Shows Oregon's Wealthiest Pulling Away From the Rest,
April 8, 2008
Fact Sheet: Expanding the EIC in 2009, March 26, 2008
CenterPoints: A Tax System that Matches Oregon Values, March, 2008
News Release: Oregon Doubles Its Venture Capital Without Income Tax Break, March 14, 2008
Fact Sheet: New Medicaid Regulations Will Reduce Federal Health Care Dollars to Oregon, March 3, 2008
39 Oregon groups express alarm about new Medicaid rules, March 10, 2008
CenterPoints: Economic Inequality Reemerges, Opportunity Withers, by Juan Carlos Ordóñez, February 2008.
News Release: President's Proposed Budget Cuts Would Hurt Oregonians and Shift Costs to State, February 21, 2008
Issue Brief: Where Will the Pain Be? OCPP’s subprime maps can help legislators target education about foreclosure scams addressed by HB 3630, February 19, 2008
Issue Brief: Fiscal Danger Ahead: Why Oregon must decouple from the bonus depreciation business tax break to save $100 million and protect public services, February 13, 2008
News Release: Federal Business Tax Break Triggers Fiscal Emergency in Oregon, February 11, 2008
Fact Sheet: Subprime loans affect families and communities in every corner of Oregon, February 1, 2008
News Release: OCPP Finds Racial Pattern in Oregon's Subprime Lending January 31, 2008
CenterPoints: Oregon Lottery Scratch-its: The New Joe Camel by Chuck Sheketoff, January, 2008
News Release: OCPP to Poor: Gamble With Oregon Health Plan Lottery January 28, 2008
News Release: Economic Stimulus Package Leaves Oregon Exposed January 25, 2008
News Release: More to Qualify for Oregon Health Plan as Poverty Line Rises January 23, 2008
Issue Brief: No Special Treatment: Seven reasons why Oregon should not reduce or eliminate the income tax on capital gains January, 21, 2008
News Release: OCPP Finds that Cutting Income Tax on Capital Gains Would Harm Nearly All Oregonians January 21, 2008
Issue Brief: Food Insecurity and Hunger Statistics by State January 15, 2008
Issue Brief: How Big an Umbrella Does Oregon Need? January 8, 2008
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