Chuck Sheketoff is the Executive Director and a founder of the Oregon Center for Public Policy, a non-profit, non-partisan research institute that uses research and analysis to advance policies and practices that improve the economic and social opportunities of low- and moderate-income Oregonians, the majority of Oregonians. Prior to starting the OCPP in 1997, Chuck lobbied the Oregon Legislature on behalf of the low-income clients of legal aid programs (1993, 1995) and the Oregon Law Center (1997). Chuck participates in BlueOregon to inform debates among Oregon progressives with an eye toward getting Oregon back on track.
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February 17, 2011 | Tax Dollars Support Flashmob Lobbying for Film Subsidies Scheme |
February 08, 2011 | Another reason you should love the Affordable Care Act |
February 08, 2011 | Oregon's Film Subsidy Tax Credit: "Reel Inefficiency" |
February 04, 2011 | A Tax Code Subsidy Gets Ways and Means Review: A Reality-Based Fiction |
January 31, 2011 | Welfare Reform Exposed and Poor Families Facing More Threats |
January 26, 2011 | Respect Oregonians' Historic "Yes" Vote |
December 21, 2010 | Facts (and Logic) Go Missing Again in a Wall Street Journal Editorial (Updated with Addendum) |
December 20, 2010 | A Tax Cut That Bleeds Revenue and Penalizes Work |
December 07, 2010 | Hurtling Toward a Planet Called Plutocracy |
November 19, 2010 | Small Businesses Need Customers, Not Tax Cuts for the Wealthy |
November 16, 2010 | Oregonians to Lame-Duck Congress: “Let the Bush-Era Tax Cuts for High-Income Expire” |
October 25, 2010 | There are better hard choices |
October 22, 2010 | It's a matter of priorities |
October 13, 2010 | They Lit the Fire and Tried to Stop the Fire Trucks |
October 01, 2010 | Washington Initiative 1098 hits the bull’s eye |
September 23, 2010 | Remember September 2010: When Americans Began to Take Back Their Health Care |
September 20, 2010 | Oregon Minimum Wage Rise Is Welcome News for Lowest-Paid Workers |
September 04, 2010 | Many Clark County residents work – and pay income taxes – in Oregon |
September 03, 2010 | Unionized Workforce is a Ray of Hope Amid Economic Gloom |
September 02, 2010 | Calculate Your Tax Savings: Obama Plan for Middle-Class vs. Bush-Era Tax Cuts Extended for Wealthy |
August 27, 2010 | Takeaways from Yesterday’s Oregon Economic and Revenue Forecast Testimony, Including: It’s the Economy, Stupid! and the Need for a Time Machine |
August 23, 2010 | The Oregon Business Association (OBA) Embraces Father of Dangerous Budget Agenda |
August 21, 2010 | The Rich Do Very Well When the Middle Class is Helped by Tax Cuts |
August 17, 2010 | The Media Continues to Swallow and Regurgitate the Big Corporate Lie About Measures 66 and 67 |
August 13, 2010 | Venture Capital Continues to Say Oregon Has Good Business Climate |
July 18, 2010 | Yes, Tax Expenditures Can Be Cut to Meet Spending Priorities |
July 16, 2010 | The Capital Gains Tax Cut Monster |
July 08, 2010 | The Unemployed and Businesses Need the Old Rep. Greg Walden |
June 28, 2010 | Reset Tax Code Spending |
June 25, 2010 | Attending AmericaSpeaks? Well, Listen Up. . . |
June 10, 2010 | Let’s Be Clear About One Thing: We’d be Worse Off But for Measures 66 and 67 |
April 29, 2010 | Income Tax and the Working Poor |
April 23, 2010 | You probably will be getting federal income tax cuts...which do you like better? |
April 20, 2010 | Some things you just can't Google |
April 15, 2010 | Jesse Springer titled it "Coincidence?" |
April 15, 2010 | Tea partiers don’t want you to read this. |
April 13, 2010 | Hey Tea Partiers! Nearly All Oregonians Are Paying Less in Federal Taxes |
April 06, 2010 | Corporate Lobby Says Oregon Business Taxes Are Nation’s Lowest and the Best Value |
March 01, 2010 | WITTs v. YOYOs: Coffee Party v. Tea Party |
February 23, 2010 | Taxes Down, Incomes Up, for a Fortunate Few |
February 22, 2010 | A Revenue Reservoir to Achieve Fiscal Stability |
February 17, 2010 | More on the Misleading Economic Analyses of Pozdena, Conerly and Fruits |
February 08, 2010 | The Davis-Tapogna Revisionist History |
February 07, 2010 | A Choice in Salem: Tax dollars for working families struggling to make ends meet or for wealthy venture capitalists? |
January 23, 2010 | NY Times Looks at Oregon's Revenue Solution for Revenue Problem: Measures 66 and 67 |
January 20, 2010 | Jesse Springer nails it, again. This time: class envy. |
January 20, 2010 | Employment Report Underscores Need for Oregon Voters and Congress to Step Up |
January 09, 2010 | The Oregonian is wrong, again. |
December 31, 2009 | Let Businesses Speak Truth to Folly |
December 23, 2009 | No Comment, Pat. |