Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP)

06/04/2026

🤖 “We have a choice to make. Are we going to trust these corporations that are trying to sell whatever they think we will buy or are we going to demand good family wage jobs from these industries?”
Tyler Fellini, from Jobs with Justice speaking at the Toxic Roots Conference in Portland.

06/04/2026

👎 47,000 Oregonians have been kicked off SNAP since H.R.1 (the Big Ugly Bill) took effect.

💔 In our latest video podcast, public policy manager Matt Newell-Ching of the Oregon Food Bank explains how visits to OFB food pantries have skyrocketed since H.R. 1 passed last year.

People are going hungry out there, Oregon.

Watch the full interview here: https://bit.ly/4dY0q4T

06/03/2026

A group seeking to reinstate tax breaks favoring the rich and corporations couldn’t come up with enough signatures to place it on the Oregon ballot. Too bad, so sad!

As a result, legislation disconnecting Oregon from wasteful federal tax breaks is safe! This protects almost $300M in revenue for schools and other essential services

Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/4udoXcg

Backers were fresh off another victory and optimistic about their chances but admitted defeat a ahead of a deadline to collect signatures.

06/02/2026

🤫 Oregon’s tax landscape is a bargain for businesses...the debate about business taxes in Oregon too often sees taxes as a cost!

😝 People ignore the indispensable benefits our tax system delivers to businesses:

🌿 the education system that trains their workers
🌿 the health care system that keeps those workers healthy
🌿 And even the transportation system that allows them to connect to customers.

😎 Read our full analysis here: https://bit.ly/3PN7mtE

06/02/2026

🌽 More than 3,500 Oregonians who work at Walmart rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to feed themselves because their low wages don't cut it. Ironic!

🌽 As a huge corporation, Walmart got massive tax cuts from the Trump administration's Big Ugly Bill last year.

🌽 Per this article: “The 2025 bill also included new corporate tax subsidies, allowing businesses to deduct upfront from their taxes 100% of the costs of new equipment, real estate and research and development.”

🌽 Ironically, this was paid for in part by cuts to SNAP, the program many Walmart employees use to feed their families.

RAGE!

✅ Read more here: https://bit.ly/4f9epqX

Oregon’s public universities and Amazon and its affiliates were also among those most listed as employers on SNAP income verification forms.

05/26/2026

😀 Yes, forming a union in your workplace is not only possible, IT IS WORTH IT!

✔️ In this mini-documentary, we spoke with Deb Mclaughlin, a social worker at Serenity Hospice in Eugene, on her team’s success forming a union after two long years.
Now, Deb’s pay and that of her colleagues has greatly improved. Congrats Deb and colleagues!

✔️ Watch here: https://bit.ly/49iaZOT

05/25/2026

⚡ News flash: The Oregon economy has outperformed other states over the decades! Our state's main problem is not the lack of prosperity, but the lack of shared prosperity...

In our ground-breaking new report, we explain how Oregon is leading the nation in several key areas.
FULL REPORT here: https://bit.ly/4u5xGxZ

Some quick stats that WILL HIT YOU HARD:

⚡ Economic growth: From 1997 to 2024, Oregon’s GDP grew 111 percent — outpacing the national rate of 89 percent and ranking 12th among all states.

⚡Per capita economic output: Per capita gross state product rose more than 60 percent between 1997 and 2024, ranking 7th nationally and exceeding the U.S. rate of 51.5 percent.

⚡ Productivity: Oregon’s worker productivity grew 55 percent from 1997 to 2024 — ranking 6th among all states and far exceeding the national rate of 34 percent.

⚡Wages: Since 2016, when Oregon’s new minimum wage structure took effect, wages for Oregon’s lowest paid workers have grown nearly 27 percent in real terms, while the median (typical) wage has risen 16 percent. Both figures outpace the national average.



Like our work? Support OCPP's research here: https://bit.ly/3M6bGTb

05/22/2026

😠 $17.5 BILLION -- that's how much Amazon got in federal income tax subsidies last year!!

To be clear, this figure doesn't include the massive subsidies Amazon gets from states like Oregon for data centers.

https://bit.ly/4dGs5aE

Amazon received $17.5 billion in tax subsidies in 2025. That’s about 10% of all federal income tax subsidies for publicly traded corporations in 2025.

05/22/2026

💡 Oregon should establish a Wealth Proceeds Tax. It's basically a tax on the income that Oregon's wealthiest people earn from owning assets, like real estate.

Read our full piece here: https://bit.ly/3Pmz54l

An Oregon Wealth Proceeds Tax is an idea whose time has come.