Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

Oregon should reform two wasteful corporate tax policies: FDII and GILTI! Doing so would help Oregon recapture $190 million in revenue this budget period 💵 💵 💰 Read our full analysis here: https://bit.ly/3WVob5M #FDII #corporatepower #multinationalcorporations

🎺 The Oregon Center for Public Policy is proud to have taken part at EARNCon's panel discussing Workforce Standards Boards. 😁 As our policy analyst Kathy Lara explained, these boards are a powerful tool for lifting wages and improving working conditions! 💪 💪 @epi.org #epi @EARNcon #EARN

Our latest episode examines what the end of the federal food security report means for Oregon, and why poverty is a policy failure, not an individual failure. Listen here: https://bit.ly/480oCkp #snap #foodinsecurity #oregon #shutdown #shutdowns

@sharonparrott.bsky.social lifts up 2 key issues that remain unaddressed as the Senate considers bills to end the shutdown: the looming spike in health care costs for 20M ppl & the need for guardrails to stop the President from undoing parts of bipartisan funding laws www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

Following the biggest cuts to nutrition programs in our nation's history, the Trump administration has announced it will no longer publish the country's main report on hunger. Coincidence? Learn more here: https://bit.ly/4nOnoP0 #SNAP #hunger #shutdown

Great news: Despite the roadblocks set up by the Trump administration, Oregon has begun restoring nutrition assistance benefits for families. Using food as a political bargaining chip is unconscionable. Kudos to Governor @tinakotek.bsky.social #SNAP #Shutdown

‼️ Take Note‼️ Tax credits Oregon families use to afford health coverage are about to expire at end of year. The consequences could be catastrophic...Learn more here: https://bit.ly/43exaCD #oregoneconomy #poverty #ohp

Today is Give!Guide Big Give Day #2. Support our vision of economic security for all. Donate $10 or more and you could win an airplane tour, $250 in gift cards to Le Pigeon and Canard, 4 tix to Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty, and a 1-night stay in Alberta neighborhood. bit.ly/4f9q6Lw

The impending loss of #SNAP benefits due to the #Shutdown threatens to undermine the long-term health of people, says @lelaineb.bsky.social of @georgetownpoverty.bsky.social. Watch the full interview with Lelaine: youtu.be/Bw4aW7OPKAI

Oregon workers too would love workforce standards boards

Oregon's own history shows why it's so important to have good data on #foodinsecurity. It's essential for fixing problems when problems exist

Letting millions of people go hungry when you have the power to prevent it is unconscionable. But it looks like that’s what the Trump administration is prepared to do. #shutdown #snap

Let's be clear: the Trump administration has access to a contingency fund that would keep food assistance benefits going next month. Is the administration really going to let millions of families go hungry when it can prevent that from happening? #snap #shutdown

#Poverty is not a reflection of the individual, but of policy failures, says Lelaine Bigelow of @georgetownpoverty.bsky.social Watch the full interview of Lelaine: youtu.be/Bw4aW7OPKAI

As the federal government #shutdown drags on, millions of Americans risk losing access to essential nutrition programs. Watch @lelaineb.bsky.social of @georgetownpoverty.bsky.social discuss how the shutdown and the Republican budget bill threaten to deepen hunger and poverty in our nation

This is really terrible if it comes to pass. Food banks are already stretched thin

Just as you wouldn't let someone else choose what groceries to put in your shopping cart, Oregon shouldn't let Congress choose our tax policy. Oregon needs to disconnect from the big federal tax giveaways in the #RepublicanBudget

No matter what the Trump Administration says, the reality is that mass deportations weaken the economy @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

You may have heard of corporations using #OffshoreTaxHavens to avoid taxes, but what does that actually look like? The latest episode of Policy for the People breaks it down @itep.org, @jasonward-cictar.bsky.social, @cictar.bsky.social

Enough with big multinational corporations playing games with the tax system! Requiring big corporations to disclose information on their profits and taxes would go a long way in fixing the problem🔍

The congressional #RepublicanBudget failed to renew enhanced tax credits families use to buy health insurance. What part of Oregon will be hardest hit? Hood River, Deschutes and Wallowa counties😡

No taxes on tips & overtime may sound nice, but they're just crumbs for the working class compared to the feast for the rich that is the #RepublicanBudget

It's bad enough that the congressional Republican budget bill passed in July was stuffed with tax giveaways for the wealthy and corporations. Oregon should not double down on those wasteful provisions #orpol #orleg

Imagine telling a couple making $85K that their health insurance is jumping from $7,200 to $24,000 — so that the rich can enjoy more tax cuts #ACA #RepublicanBudget

Food pantries are supposed to be the last line of defense against hunger, but demand is skyrocketing. And it's about to get a lot worse, due to the congressional Republican budget #hungeractionmonth @oregonfoodbank.bsky.social

Parents are skipping meals so their kids can eat. And now, the congressional Republican budget bill will be taking away food from struggling families. On #HungerActionMonth, remember that hunger is a policy choice, and we can choose differently @oregonfoodbank.bsky.social

September is #HungerActionMonth. And right now, we need to be active like never before, pushing back against the incredibly damaging congressional Republican budget, which will increase hunger across the land

What do you do after slashing our nation's most important anti-hunger program, a move guaranteed to increase the number of people struggling to get enough food? If you're the Trump administration, you stop counting the number of people going hungry

Oregonians won't suffer Trump's big ugly tax scam replicated at home. Policymakers must act ASAP to STOP Trump's reckless cuts from becoming Oregon's code!

We know that: -Corporations have lots of tax loopholes -Big corporations shift profits abroad to avoid taxes -Nearly 7 in 10 corps. in Oregon pay the minimum tax. What we don't know is how much Amazon, Meta, or any corporation pays in OR taxes. We need #CorporateTaxTransparency

“Poverty is a pathogen. It makes kids sick.” The cure? Give families CASH #RxKids #ChildPoverty

Have you been impacted by Intel’s financial problems? Were you recently laid off by #Intel? Share your story

The Trump administration has it backward. Rather than help native born workers, #deportations weaken the economy, while making workers more vulnerable to exploitation

Honoured to appear on OCPP's "Policy for the People" pod, and keep our issues in the minds of the community & our lawmakers. Oregon rideshare drivers and riders demand fairness and transparency! 💙✊🏿🤍✊️🖤✊🏻 #unionstrong #driverpower #sharethefare

Fired by an app! That can happen to Uber and Lyft drivers. In the latest episode of Policy for the People, Nathaniel Hudson-Hartman and Joe Jackson of @driversunionor.bsky.social talk about rideshare drivers' fight for better pay and working conditions See the full show -->https://bit.ly/4m0xHP0

Sad but not surprising, given that so many families are struggling to make ends meet despite their hard work

Yesterday's OR revenue forecast showed a fiscal crisis is brewing. The Governor should call a special session to: ✅restore state control over tax policy by not replicating the reckless actions of Congress ✅retain a portion of the projected kicker (only that of the richest Oregonians) #orleg #orpol

BREAKING NEWS: Oregon’s general fund resources — the money that pays for schools, health care and public safety — have shrunk by more than $845 million since May. The Governor should call a special session to head off a looming fiscal crisis #orpol #orleg

🚨 A fiscal crisis is coming to our state. Because Oregon automatically replicates federal tax changes (even reckless tax changes), the state is set to lose nearly $1B in revenue. That’s money meant for schools and other essential services. The Gov. and legislature must act now #orpol #orleg

Every year, massive corporations like Amazon and Facebook pocket hundreds of millions of dollars that should instead go to Oregon schools #FundSchoolsNotBillionaires

“It’s a national scandal . . . that the richest country in the world would have destitute elderly and disabled people”

🎥 Fun fact: About 2/3 of personal bankruptcies in the U.S. are from medical bills. Wanna know what’s extra fun? Most of those folks had health insurance. And that's before the congressional #RepublicanBudget begins raising the cost of health care for everyone. Learn more -->https://bit.ly/45Vl3Mm

So much of the progress on health care that we've seen over the past 15 years is now at risk. We're now on course to seeing fewer Oregonians with health insurance and higher costs for everyone else, due to the congressional Republican budget plan

Whether or not you get your health care from Medicaid, the Big Ugly bill is going to affect your health coverage. Watch the full episode of Policy for the People --> bit.ly/415GWWw

A tax on extreme wealth is the answer

“There really is no tendency for millionaires to live in low-tax states . . . . The more money you make, the less likely you are to move.”

This is how messed up the economy is: To avoid a recession, the richest 10% need to keep spending money on parties and luxuries. As one prominent economist put it, "the rest of the income distribution is really not consequential." There's something really wrong when 90% of your people don't matter

When an elected official says "we can't afford it," do as the audience did at this Nebraska town hall. Tell them to #TaxtheRich

Sadly, this is fully consistent with other research showing that more than 2 in 5 Oregonians don't make enough to reasonably afford the essentials. Widespread economic insecurity is a defining feature of our present reality -- but it doesn't have to be that way