Recent Publications

How to Increase Low-Income Homeownership Without Subsidies

A recent study published by the Urban Institute discusses how the current system…

Response to TriMet comments on Cascade’s pilot project proposal

To: TPAC We appreciated the time allocated by TPAC recently to consider our…

How happy are we?

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

Oregon Wears the Union Label

Summary Private sector unionism has declined to the point of irrelevance in America,…

Who Owns Your Social Security? (hint: it’s not you)

Summary The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that retirees do not have an ownership…

Carbon Grandstanding

Last week Gov. Kulongoski and the governors of five other western states signed…

NO SCHIP

Summary Congress wants to expand SCHIP to provide more uninsured children with health…

Central Oregon private-public mobility agenda

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

Portlanders See Through the “Bike vs. Car” Racket

The Wheels to Wealth program is finally communicating with an audience it always wanted to reach out to. Program Director Sreya Sarkar took part in a debate in SE Portland that attracted the biking community of Portland.

As part of their monthly Debate Club series, the Bus Project and the Portland Mercury hosted a . . . Read more!

Better Health Care Through Less Government

Summary Many of the problems present in Oregon’s health care system associated with…