About a quarter-million Oregon working families face a tax increase if Senators in the minority fail to return to Salem
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As Oregon lawmakers consider increasing the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a new national report examines how state EITCs
Oregon’s ultra-rich — the highest-earning one out of every 1,000 Oregonians — have never been so rich compared to the
The majority of Oregon families living in poverty have at least one working parent, and often that parent works full
Large multinational corporations would have a harder time shielding their profits from Oregon taxes if the state reinstated a law
Oregon’s poorest families pay more in taxes as a share of income than any group of taxpayers in the state,
Even though the paychecks of Oregon workers have grown recently, many workers have seen no real gains in their wages
The Oregon Center for Public Policy, the state’s leading public policy think tank, has selected Alejandro Queral as its new
Oregon is a case study of what can go wrong when states artificially limit property taxes. Examining the experiences of
Oregon is now largely defenseless against the well-worn practice of corporations escaping taxes by artificially shifting profits to foreign tax
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