Everyone Gets a Raise! Thanks to the passage of Senate Bill 1532, minimum wage workers in Deschutes County will get a raise on July 1, when Oregon’s minimum wage increases from the current $9.25 hourly rate to $9.50. Minimum wage workers in Portland will see an increase of 50-cents an hour. The new “wage law” […]
Oregon Minimum Wage
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Side Notes 2/3-2/10
Greg Bretzing, the special agent in charge of the FBI in Oregon, released a statement on the use of deadly force and issued an update on the situation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. As of Jan. 28, the FBI believes that four people are still occupying the refuge. Checkpoints were established around the refuge […]
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Barely Getting By
The cost of minimum wage
Fourteen states raised minimum wage on New Year's Day this year, and three more will do so later in the year, but Oregon’s minimum wage will not budge in 2016. Oregon lawmakers failed to agree on a minimum wage increase in 2015, with rural and urban politicians disagreeing to a one-size-fits-all number for the state. […]
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Editorial: Minimum Wage
Let the voters decide
Nearly 200,000 low wage workers in Oregon require public assistance in the form of SNAP (what was once known as food stamps). That is to say, they are not earning enough to be able to afford food. On Thursday, Gov. Kate Brown’s office fired off a press release with a proposed plan for legislation to […]
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Side Notes 12/16-12/23
Another big step was taken toward raising Oregon’s minimum wage by the Raise the Wage Coalition last week. The group—which includes an extensive list of human rights, workers’ rights, and social justice nonprofits—attained three certified ballot titles from the state’s Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum. The ballot initiatives received more than 4,000 signatures, meeting the certification […]