Category: Economic Opportunity

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[audio:QuickPoint 9-23-09.mp3] Click the play button to hear the audio commentary   The…

To celebrate Constitution Day, Cascade Policy Institute is posting the results of the…

[audio:QuickPoint 9-16-09.mp3] Click the play button to hear the audio commentary Oregon’s rural…

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Metro, along with Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties, is nearing the end of…

Rose Director Friedman, wife of the late Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman,…

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Temperatures soared in Oregon last week and, with the extreme temperatures, energy use…

John A. Charles, Jr. will be intereviewed by KATU News (Channel 2) on…

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Today the Port of Portland voted unanimously to enter into an Air Service…

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Summary: The U.S. has survived much worse policies and attitudes than our current…

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By Shirley Iverson and John A. Charles, Jr. Summary Over the past decade,…

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Click here to read this Commentary in PDF format   Summary Singapore’s Central…

To pull us out of the current recession, politicians on the state and…

Portland was recently chosen as one of five cities where the U.S. Small…

Summary Public policy advocates and lawmakers have proposed numerous programs allowing people to…

Summary When Cascade Policy Institute compared the Social Security Master Death List to…

Today we are all aware of the candidate who won our highest office,…

Summary Cascade Policy Institute commissioned a study of registered voters in Oregon, comparing…

Ten years ago Oregon became the first state to vote exclusively by mail….

There was a time when large national banks were considered more stable and…

Summary Did lack of government regulation create the subprime mortgage crisis? Most likely,…

What happens to a ballot from the time you leave it at an…

There is no more important topic in Oregon, and nationwide, than the state…

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 converted a national…

Summary Nearly 100 college presidents from around the nation have asked lawmakers to…

Summary Critics of Oregon’s so-called “double majority” rule say it isn’t democratic because…

Rob Kremer gave the following address at the Milton Friedman “Legacy of Freedom”…

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Our Governor envisions an “Innovation State” that leverages new technologies and attracts investment,…

Many private banks and financial institutions are in trouble because they supplied the…

As children, our parents have absolute responsibility for our lives. Without their willingness…

Review of Lessons from the Poor: Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit, edited by…

“Why Not Portland?” This is the question raised by supporters of a health…

Imagine you want to start a business, but the government says you can’t…

Does planning have to work to be successful? We Oregonians believe many myths…

A recent analysis by two prominent economists pegs the eventual cost of our…

The Portland City Council, in its collective wisdom, imposed a system of public…

William F. Buckley, Jr. died last week at his home in Connecticut. He…

A recent study suggested that nearly half of the cost of a home…

A recent article in Resurgence Magazine (December 2007) makes the claim that our…

Within the last week, two major news stories have demonstrated why politicians should…

In response to the recent problems in the home mortgage market, the Oregon…

Last year two important developments took place in Oregon that favored low-income workers’…

The 2007 Oregon legislature capped interest rates on payday loans, effectively putting the…

Poverty, economic development and fairness are words often used when speaking about income…

Oregon taxpayers soon will receive checks in the mail representing 18.6 percent of…

Presidential hopefuls, policy wonks and advocates from the Left have given the idea…

Remember when the only telephone service you could get was from AT&T? From…

Last week the state of Oklahoma indicted national political activist Paul Jacob for…

For eighteen years we’ve heard that The Oregon Convention Center needs a headquarters…

Democracy is not an excuse for tyranny. It must be more than two…

Economists measure all kinds of things, such as income, assets, inflation and unemployment….

Central Oregon Mobility Consortium, under the Central Oregon Intergovermental Council, is on the…

Oregon’s strong public employee unions may grow even stronger now that Governor Kulongoski…

Governor Kulongoski recently signed a series of bills that will spend a total…

Recently, Willamette Week printed a story regarding non-profit organizations utilizing the Cooler Email…

This week, four new laws went into effect making it illegal for Oregon…

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously last week that public employee unions can’t…

The 100th Portland Rose Festival has come and gone, but the great duct…

Response to “A Second Look at Microfinance: The Sequence of Growth and Credit…

Oregon presently has eight destination resorts that employ approximately 2,100 people. Destination resorts…

Testimony before the Portland City Council January 18, 2007 I’m Steve Buckstein, Senior…

The biggest question confronting private-sector industries in Oregon is how they will replace…

A great champion of human liberty passed away on November 16th at the…

Oregonians will vote on ten statewide citizen initiatives this November. One Willamette University…