CPI: Rural Oregon Is Tired of Being Ignored

CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE, 5/31/2011 by Karla Kay Edwards - A statistic commonly used to highlight the economic hardship Oregonians bear is that Oregonians on average earn 91 cents to every dollar of average earned income nationwide. But that story is even more dramatic for rural Oregonians, who earn a mere 75 cents on the dollar when compared to personal income nationally. Yet, the Oregon legislature has done nothing significant to begin to change this dire... Read more at CPI...