Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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For two years now, Oregon’s wage floor has been stuck in place. It’s run aground at a place well short of what families need to make ends meet. That may seem strange to say given that Oregon’s minimum hourly wage went up 50 cents on July 1, but that increase only keeps pace with inflation. It’s just enough to not fall behind the rising cost of living, but not enough to make progress. Progress on wages is essential to remedy the widespread economic insecurity afflicting Oregonians, and there are...
In the current legislative session, as is the case every session, corporate lobbyists are hard at work trying to procure new tax breaks for their clients. These lobbyists representing many big corporations are going around waving a corporate-funded study claiming that business taxes in Oregon are too high. If you are a lawmaker, you lack a key piece of information to decide whether the claims of the corporate lobby are true: how much big corporations like Amazon, Walmart, Nike, and the like pay in income taxes to Oregon. Neither lawmakers nor...
