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This article was published by the Center for American Progress
By Donna Cooper | February 22, 2011
House leaders are unfortunately restricting their proposed budget cuts for the remainder of fiscal year 2011 to nonsecurity discretionary spending in an attempt to tame a $1.3 trillion deficit. This approach [...]

As the struggle in Wisconsin continues the truth about why so many States are broke continues to be left out of the national debate. Real solutions to the fiscal problems facing our communities are ignored in favor of attacking public employee’s bargaining rights. Corporate America is entitled to a trillion dollar bail out, record Wall [...]

As we would expect the instrument of the wealthy and voice of the privileged known commonly as The Wall Street Journal is attempting to spread misinformation about our progressive measures 66 and 67. Unfortunately for the Journal the poor treatment and misleading “evidence” presented in the editorial only serve to demonstrate just how bad the [...]

On January 26th Oregonian’s did something extremely progressive and somewhat unusual, we voted to raise taxes. For the first time in almost 80 years initiatives calling for increased taxes passed. Measures 66 and 67 raise the corporate minimum tax from $10 to $150 (which had remained static since 1931 ) and raise the tax rate [...]

With ballots soon to be mailed the pressure is on to get the real information out about measures 66 and 67. The business lobby is spending millions on ads trying to dupe us into believing the only way out of our current economic mess is to protect the status quo and vote no on these [...]

This article published by the Oregon Center for Public Policy illustrates the lengths opponents-read wealthy individuals and corporations-will go to in order to protect their privilege.
Experts Debunk Claim That Tax Measures Would Cost Jobs
Tax Policy Center calls arguments “misleading” and “fatally flawed”
(Silverton) — The central argument by opponents of Measures 66 and 67, that [...]

In our current climate of economic crisis a coalition of Oregonians have come together to propose reform for our ancient and lopsided state tax system. Defend Oregon is a coalition of organizations and individuals committed to a fairer tax system in Oregon and protecting essential services: education, public safety, and healthcare. The information below [...]

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor
federation representing 11.5 million workers in 57 international and
national unions, has endorsed a single payer health care system as the
best way to guarantee healthcare to everyone. The unanimous vote in favor
of Convention Resolution 34, The Social Insurance Model for Health Care
Reform, came immediately after President [...]

Brothers and Sisters, finally honest feedback on single payer from the President of the National Union of Public and General Employees. Following is a letter sent to President Obama and all members of the House and Senate dispelling untruth’s about single payer.
Dear Friends,
I am writing to you on behalf of the 340,000 members of the [...]

Thanks California Nurses Association for this call to action. Please tell everyone you know to call now!!
In Solidarity
House Vote on State Option TODAY
for Single-Payer Healthcare
Congress member Dennis Kucinich of Ohio will be introducing an important single-payer amendment today, Thursday – the House healthcare reform bill.
The Kucinich amendment which gives states the right to pass and [...]