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		<title>Testimony in opposition to SB 1581 before the Senate Committee on Education and Workforce Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opposing More Top-Down Control of Oregon Education Chair Hass, Co-Chair Morse, and members of the Committee, my name is Steve Buckstein. I’m Senior Policy Analyst and founder of Cascade Policy Institute, a non-partisan, non-profit public policy research organization based in Portland. Our mission is to promote policies that enhance individual liberty, personal responsibility, and economic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascadepolicy.org/news/2012/02/08/testimony-in-opposition-to-sb-1581-before-the-senate-committee-on-education-and-workforce-development/</link>
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		<title>Why Oregonians Deserve the Right to Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The twenty-two states that have not required workers to join a union and pay union dues have enjoyed, as a group, more rapid employment and income growth, better job preservation, and faster recoveries from recession. Oregon is not one of those states, yet. Here, policymakers tried to pull us out of the most recent recession [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascadepolicy.org/news/2012/02/06/why-oregonians-deserve-the-right-to-work/</link>
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		<title>Press Release: Cascade Policy Institute Report predicts 110,000 jobs for Oregon with enactment of a Right-to-Work Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 2, 2012 Contact: Steve Buckstein Senior Policy Analyst &#38; Co-Founder Cascade Policy Institute Office Phone: 503-242-0900 E-Mail: steven@cascadepolicy.org Cascade Policy Institute Report predicts over 100,000 jobs for Oregon with enactment of a Right-to-Work law Cascade Policy Institute just released a major economic study, The Right to Work Is Right for Oregon, which concludes that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascadepolicy.org/news/2012/02/02/press-release-cascade-policy-institute-report-predicts-110000-jobs-for-oregon-with-enactment-of-a-right-to-work-law/</link>
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		<title>New Report: The Right to Work Is Right for Oregon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Right to Work Is Right for Oregon: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Economic Benefits from Enacting a Right-to-Work Law By Randall Pozdena, Ph.D. and Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Cascade Policy Institute • February 2012 Click here to read the full report.]]></description>
		<link>http://cascadepolicy.org/news/2012/01/31/new-report-the-right-to-work-is-right-for-oregon/</link>
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		<title>Testimony to House Committee on unemployment accounts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click here to listen to the testimony. Christina Martin&#8217;s testimony to the House Interim Committee on Business and Labor starts at 41:00. &#160; Co-Chair Garrett, Co-Chair Kennemer, members of the Committee: &#160; My name is Christina Martin. I am a policy analyst with Cascade Policy Institute. &#160; I am here today to talk about unemployment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascadepolicy.org/news/2012/01/31/testimony-to-house-committee-on-unemployment-accounts/</link>
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		<title>Giving Parents a Choice and Children a Chance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A helping hand makes all the difference to elementary school children who need a chance. Last spring I attended a luncheon at Central Catholic High School in Portland to honor graduating seniors with athletic scholarships to college. I was invited by a young man who began to be sponsored by the Children’s Scholarship Fund-Portland when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascadepolicy.org/news/2012/01/26/giving-parents-a-choice-and-children-a-chance/</link>
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		<title>Steve Buckstein talks about Cascade&#8217;s School Choice Beginnings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch Cascade Policy Institute founder, Steve Buckstein, talk about how he and Cascade got their start in the school choice movement.]]></description>
		<link>http://cascadepolicy.org/news/2012/01/25/steve-buckstein-talks-about-cascades-school-choice-beginnings/</link>
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		<title>National School Choice Week Celebrates Opportunity and Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is National School Choice Week. Every January, National School Choice Week highlights the need for effective educational options for all children. Planned by a diverse and nonpartisan coalition of individuals and organizations, National School Choice Week features special events and activities that support school choice programs and proposals. The effort is a collaboration of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascadepolicy.org/news/2012/01/25/national-school-choice-week-celebrates-opportunity-and-innovation/</link>
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		<title>Cascade’s School Choice Beginnings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is school choice such an important part of Cascade Policy Institute’s agenda? Partially, because it is the issue that got us started back in 1991. In 1990 a small group, including myself, got together and placed a citizen initiative on Oregon’s ballot. Measure 11 would have provided refundable tax credits to every K-12 student [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascadepolicy.org/news/2012/01/24/cascade%e2%80%99s-school-choice-beginnings-2/</link>
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		<title>Three Strikes and You’re Out: Replacing Top-Down Education Control with School Choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his recent State of the State address, Governor John Kitzhaber argued that legislators must “lock in” his education system changes so they then can move on to other important issues such as tax reform and public safety. Notice that he did not mention the last two big educational changes he helped “lock in.” Both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascadepolicy.org/news/2012/01/19/three-strikes-and-you%e2%80%99re-out-replacing-top-down-education-control-with-school-choice/</link>
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