Ready to Learn, Ready to Work in Salem-Keizer
Summary The Salem-area Ready to Learn-Ready to Work program helps high school students…
Read Blog DetailSummary The Salem-area Ready to Learn-Ready to Work program helps high school students…
Read Blog DetailMy name is John Charles, president and CEO of Cascade Policy Institute. Cascade…
Read Blog DetailIn three weeks Portland State University will proudly host the annual “Towards Carfree…
Read Blog DetailSummary Sustainability advocates believe that a free-market economy is “unsustainable,” but free societies…
Read Blog DetailLast week Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed legislation enacting a new school choice…
Read Blog DetailSummary Portland’s population is expanding, but our highway and bridge network is crumbling….
Read Blog DetailThe Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice recently released a poll of 1,000 likely…
Read Blog DetailSummary A federal review found Oregon’s Child Welfare program to be in “substantial…
Read Blog DetailDoes planning have to work to be successful? We Oregonians believe many myths…
Read Blog DetailSummary Why has Governor Ted Kulongoski left at-risk and abused kids waiting during…
Read Blog DetailSummary Ask even reasonably knowledgeable people how big the Oregon state budget is…
Read Blog DetailThose who advocate using the federal Medicare program as a model for “universal…
Read Blog DetailLast year the Oregon legislature passed three bills (HB 2210, 2211 and 2212)…
Read Blog DetailSummary Calculating the true per-student cost of public education in Oregon is complicated,…
Read Blog DetailRecently the Environmental Protection Agency tightened the standard for ground-level ozone by 11…
Read Blog DetailSummary Journalist Andrew Gumble recently wrote in The Independent (UK): “Poverty deepens when…
Read Blog DetailA recent analysis by two prominent economists pegs the eventual cost of our…
Read Blog DetailSummary Oregon’s economy will create an estimated 250,000 new jobs over the next…
Read Blog DetailStarting with the beginnings of life on earth, change has been a constant…
Read Blog DetailThe Portland City Council, in its collective wisdom, imposed a system of public…
Read Blog DetailSummary The governor’s Task Force on Comprehensive Revenue Restructuring recently discussed imposing a…
Read Blog DetailRecently, the Oregon Board of Education took up the issue of whether and…
Read Blog DetailSummary As if helping kids weren’t hard enough, Oregon foster parents may one…
Read Blog DetailIn the early 1980s federal investment in research and development of agricultural machines…
Read Blog DetailSummary A Portland delegation saw what real education reform looks like on a…
Read Blog DetailWilliam F. Buckley, Jr. died last week at his home in Connecticut. He…
Read Blog DetailA recent study suggested that nearly half of the cost of a home…
Read Blog DetailSummary For over 25 years, an increasing number of other countries have established…
Read Blog DetailIntroduction In a world where taxes are used to finance government, possibilities for…
Read Blog DetailSummary The Social Security System worked well when there were sixteen workers to…
Read Blog DetailA recent article in Resurgence Magazine (December 2007) makes the claim that our…
Read Blog DetailFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James M. Taylor E-mail: taylor@heartland.org Hundreds of the world’s…
Read Blog DetailWithin the last week, two major news stories have demonstrated why politicians should…
Read Blog DetailSummary Dick Stamm’s experience on an Illinois school board shows what four dedicated…
Read Blog DetailIn response to the recent problems in the home mortgage market, the Oregon…
Read Blog DetailLast year two important developments took place in Oregon that favored low-income workers’…
Read Blog DetailSummary While supposedly a boon for tobacco prevention efforts, the Master Settlement Agreement…
Read Blog DetailSummary The demand for school choice is growing. The Children’s Scholarship Fund-Portland has…
Read Blog DetailYale University’s Center for Environmental Law and Policy released a report last week…
Read Blog DetailSummary Tata Motors’ Nano, the cheapest car in the world, was launched this…
Read Blog DetailThe House Interim Committee on Health Care held a lively public hearing and…
Read Blog DetailSummary The slogan, “Business should pay its fair share,” misses the point. No…
Read Blog DetailLast week’s Oregon Health Summit in Salem featured experts talking with legislators, providers…
Read Blog DetailSummary Welfare dependent people need access to physical, social and economic mobility to…
Read Blog DetailSummary A recent study of public sector retirement funds by The Pew Charitable…
Read Blog DetailWhile the debate continues over top-down, government-provided health care vs. consumer-driven, grassroots health…
Read Blog DetailSummary Clean-up of pollution from motor vehicles has been one of the great…
Read Blog DetailThe Portland Public School Board recently denied all four requests from charter school…
Read Blog DetailContrary to what the interest groups who run our public education system keep…
Read Blog DetailDo you believe in Santa Claus? By the time many people think they…
Read Blog DetailSummary While TriMet has agreed to some reforms in the wake of the…
Read Blog DetailSummary “Income inequality” is a central part of the debate surrounding poverty and…
Read Blog DetailSummary The polling data is trending toward school choice. As more and more…
Read Blog DetailThe 2007 Oregon legislature capped interest rates on payday loans, effectively putting the…
Read Blog DetailObservers of Portland transportation have long criticized local politicians for spending billions of…
Read Blog DetailSummary Al Gore’s recent Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change…
Read Blog DetailFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: John A. Charles, Jr. Tel.: 503-242-0900 Fax: 503-242-3822 E-mail:…
Read Blog DetailIntroduction In the summer of 1988, Portland City Commissioner Bob Koch introduced an…
Read Blog DetailPoverty, economic development and fairness are words often used when speaking about income…
Read Blog DetailSummary The root of the contemporary American dilemma about how much to spend…
Read Blog DetailOregon taxpayers soon will receive checks in the mail representing 18.6 percent of…
Read Blog DetailSummary Individual Oregon income taxpayers are set to receive a record $1.1 billion…
Read Blog DetailPresidential hopefuls, policy wonks and advocates from the Left have given the idea…
Read Blog DetailSummary The development of municipal wireless broadband networks has been popular with local…
Read Blog DetailTriMet has always taken credit for promoting economic development along light rail lines,…
Read Blog DetailRemember when the only telephone service you could get was from AT&T? From…
Read Blog DetailSummary An expansive amount of research from across the political spectrum demonstrates the…
Read Blog DetailOne of the most perplexing things about the current fight over Oregon land…
Read Blog DetailSummary Property is more than land. Eroding Oregonians’ property rights jeopardizes all the…
Read Blog DetailIn 1999 local Oregon donors pledged one million dollars to begin the Children’s…
Read Blog DetailPortland City Commissioner Sam Adams and Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler have proposed…
Read Blog DetailSummary The more something is taxed, less of it is produced. The capital…
Read Blog DetailLast week the state of Oklahoma indicted national political activist Paul Jacob for…
Read Blog DetailSummary Milton Friedman wrote: “Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he…
Read Blog DetailLast summer the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation released a study entitled…
Read Blog DetailFor eighteen years we’ve heard that The Oregon Convention Center needs a headquarters…
Read Blog DetailSummary A committee representing the three Central Oregon Counties has created a regional…
Read Blog DetailPresident Bragdon and members of the council, for the record my name is…
Read Blog DetailSummary Measure 50 on the November ballot would lock a tobacco tax into…
Read Blog DetailCascade 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 DetailDemocracy is not an excuse for tyranny. It must be more than two…
Read Blog DetailSynopsis Wheels to Wealth is a proposal with a dual purpose: First, to…
Read Blog DetailThe population composition of the Portland area has changed in the last 5 years. According to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2000, 8.5% of families and 13.1% of individuals in Portland were below the federal poverty level. In 2005, 11.8% of families and 17.8% of individuals in Portland were below the poverty level. The minority population also has increased, both in Portland and statewide.
The demographic group known as the working poor is also growing. Following the welfare reforms of 1996, though Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cases have gone down comparably, a significant pool of working poor are still struggling to reach family-wage jobs.
The proposed Wheels to Wealth initiative is an attempt to incorporate the working poor, and the minority population, in the regional transportation plan by giving them better access to job markets and consumer services. . . . Read more!
Read Blog DetailA recent study published by the Urban Institute discusses how the current system…
Read Blog DetailTo: TPAC We appreciated the time allocated by TPAC recently to consider our…
Read Blog DetailEconomists measure all kinds of things, such as income, assets, inflation and unemployment….
Read Blog DetailSummary Private sector unionism has declined to the point of irrelevance in America,…
Read Blog DetailSummary The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that retirees do not have an ownership…
Read Blog DetailLast week Gov. Kulongoski and the governors of five other western states signed…
Read Blog DetailSummary Congress wants to expand SCHIP to provide more uninsured children with health…
Read Blog DetailCentral Oregon Mobility Consortium, under the Central Oregon Intergovermental Council, is on the…
Read Blog DetailThe 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!
Read Blog DetailSummary Many of the problems present in Oregon’s health care system associated with…
Read Blog DetailOregon’s strong public employee unions may grow even stronger now that Governor Kulongoski…
Read Blog DetailThe collapse of the I-35 Bridge and loss of life in Minneapolis is…
Read Blog DetailSummary The payday lending interest rate cap passed by the Oregon legislature has…
Read Blog DetailGovernor Kulongoski recently signed a series of bills that will spend a total…
Read Blog DetailSummary By defining the state’s most abundant energy resource, running water, as “non-renewable,”…
Read Blog DetailSummary While consumer choice is a proven cost-cutter, health insurance mandates raise premiums,…
Read Blog DetailMembers of the Commission, my name is Steve Buckstein. I’m Senior Policy Analyst…
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