Minimum Wage – Its Role in the Youth Employment Crisis
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Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Oregon’s free-market research center, Cascade Policy Institute, celebrated…
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Read Blog DetailSeptember 5 marked the official 30th anniversary of the opening of TriMet’s light…
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Read Blog DetailELECTION RESULT: 59 percent of Oregon voters said NO to this sales tax…
Read Blog DetailThe massive gross receipts tax Measure 97 on Oregon’s November ballot (previously known…
Read Blog DetailThe Portland City Council has approved a plan for the Housing Bureau to…
Read Blog DetailNational Employee Freedom Week (NEFW, August 14-20, 2016), aims to educate union members…
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Read Blog DetailThe biggest proposed tax increase in Oregon history now has a measure number….
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Read Blog DetailLast week the Oregon Department of State Lands announced the “fair market value”…
Read Blog DetailPortland school superintendent Carole Smith abruptly resigned in July, after nine years on…
Read Blog DetailIda Elisabeth had every reason to leave her husband. He was foolish, immature,…
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Read Blog DetailOne of the greatest minds of our era passed away in November 2006….
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Read Blog DetailPortland school superintendent Carole Smith announced her resignation this week after nine years…
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Read Blog DetailSince 1999, the nonprofit Children’s Scholarship Fund has empowered more than 152,000 low-income…
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Read Blog DetailWilliamsburg: The Story of a Patriot is the longest running motion picture ever,…
Read Blog Detail—A Declaration That Never Goes out of Style Two hundred and forty years…
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Read Blog DetailPublic employee union backers of Initiative Petition 28 have turned in more than…
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Read Blog DetailPublic employee union backers of Initiative Petition 28 have turned in more than…
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Read Blog DetailThe Portland Public School board recently voted to prohibit textbooks or classroom materials…
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Read Blog DetailGovernor Kate Brown opposes a plan by the Coquille Indian Tribe to build…
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Read Blog DetailGoogle announced recently that it would no longer run ads for payday loans,…
Read Blog DetailDid you know that almost half of Washington, D.C.’s public school children attend…
Read Blog DetailIn August 2015 the Oregon Land Board (Governor Kate Brown, Secretary of State…
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Read Blog DetailStudy Finds That Transportation Funding Should Be a State and Local Responsibility May…
Read Blog DetailThis year’s May Day activities in Portland centered on promoting “workers’ rights” and…
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Read Blog Detail“Wretchedly did [Sir Thomas] feel, that with all the cost and care of…
Read Blog DetailI first wrote in 2003 about what I call “The Statement”: “I support…
Read Blog DetailGovernor Kate Brown opposes a plan by the Coquille Indian Tribe to build…
Read Blog DetailFamilies in five states now have access to a special program called Educational…
Read Blog Detail“Amateur” is French for “one who loves.” But today, the word is commonly…
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Read Blog DetailBy Nick Pangares and John A. Charles, Jr. Most elected officials who serve on…
Read Blog DetailAs California Governor Jerry Brown signed his state’s $15 minimum wage bill into…
Read Blog DetailRecently TriMet announced that after two years of planning for an expensive new…
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Read Blog DetailThe U.S. Department of Transportation announced this week that Portland is one of…
Read Blog Detail“You cannot fight for something you don’t believe in,” says the wife of…
Read Blog DetailOregon’s three-tiered minimum wage law was just signed by Governor Kate Brown last…
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