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Big Business Already Giving Big to Take Down Oregon Tax Increase

PSN on August 13, 2009 - 10:50am
Earlier this year, policymakers in Oregon enacted both temporary and permanent changes in the state’s tax system to help close an enormous budget gap and, by extension, provide funding for vital services like education, health care, and public safety... Yet, due to quirks in Oregon’s legislative process, opponents of these changes have an opportunity to put them before the voters for approval via referendum.  Not surprisingly, representatives of big business and a who’s who of anti-tax organizations are attempting to take full advantage of that opportunity.

Progressive Revenue Measures Approved or Moving in Oregon and Other States

Nathan Newman on June 25, 2009 - 12:02pm
Oregon became the latest state to address the current fiscal crisis with progressive revenue increases.  This is part of a welcome trend that we highlighted back in April of states recognizing that budget cuts need to be balanced with wealthier state residents being asked to pay their fair share to address the effects of the economic downturn.

Tax Relief to Help Low-Wage Washington Residents

Nathan Newman on January 31, 2008 - 10:55am
Because it lacks a state income tax, Washington State creates one of the highest tax burdens on poorer families, but some relief is being proposed, as the Washington State Budget & Policy Center outlines in this policy brief, in the form of a Working Families Credit which would give 350,000 Washington residents the equivalent of 10% of their federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) refund.

Welfare "Reform": Ten Years Later

PSN on September 18, 2006 - 9:24am
It's now ten years since the 1996 welfare law promised to end "welfare as we know it." That goal may have been accomplished, but the results have been decidedly mixed, both for poor families and for state lawmakers coping with changing federal mandates.