My Two Cents and My Freedom:The Cost of Paid Family Leave
Some Oregon activists are begging the state legislature to create yet another social…
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Expanding a Broken System Only Widens the Cracks
By Christina Martin Summary The Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act, tacked onto the current…
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Click here to read this Commentary in PDF format Summary The Unemployment Compensation…
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In the early 1980s federal investment in research and development of agricultural machines…
Read Blog DetailNew Pilot Study Initiative Aims to Increase the Mobility of Low-Income Workers in Portland through Auto Ownership
Cascade Policy Institute has released a report unveiling a pilot project to examine the feasibility of promoting low-income auto ownership as a transit strategy.
Cascade’s Wheels to Wealth Program is promoting the formation of a committee to discuss the feasibility of creating an auto-loan program for the low-income population in the Portland tri-county area to assist in meeting the complex transportation needs of this demographic group. This program will be funded using the savings that would come from the cancellation of the lowest performing TriMet bus routes. . . . Read more!
Read Blog DetailSelf-employment, a way out of welfare
To fit in with the latest federal requirements set by Deficit Reduction Act…
Read Blog DetailPrevailing Wage Laws: Legislating Inequity
Introduction and Summary “Prevailing” wage legislation requires that a particular wage rate be…
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If no changes are made to the Social Security system, it will be…
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