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Oregon Action in the News

Affordable Housing

Ashland Daily Tidings - Lower Pines issue heads to courtroom
Ashland Daily Tidings - Evictions lead to planned rally
Medford Mail Tribune - Our Poor, Our Hungry
Medford Mail Tribune - Ashland cannot maintain diversity without affordable housing
Ashland Daily Tidings - Who are these new owners?
Mail Tribune - Trailer park residents get heave-ho
Mail Tribune - For some it may as well be eviction
Mail Tribune - Manor plans have mobile home tenants worrying
Mail Tribune - Landlord buys Ashland home park
Mail Tribune - Investors hope to buy trailer park, leave it as it is PDF
Livability a key to maintaining Ashland's status
Mail Tribune - Not much is all they've got
Mail Tribune - Ashland's just a dream for many

Living Wage - Medford Living Wage Campaign

Medford Mail Tribune - Community Health Center and Community Works increase workers' pay to Ashland living wage
Medford Mail Tribune - Medford council rejects living wage 4-3
Medford Mail Tribune - Medford council won't support living wage
Medford Mail Tribune - Council gives go-ahead to living wage forum
Mail Tribune - Let the hungry eat cake
Mail Tribune - Living wage makes inroads with council
Mail Tribune - Since you asked

Prescription Drugs

Statesman-Journal - Wholesale drug plan unveiled
Oregonian -
KATU - Kulongoski ready to push plans to cut drug costs
KGW - Kulongoski outlines drug cost plan
OPB - Kulongoski plan to cut drug costs
Oregonian - Prescription Costs Pinch Senior Citizens
In My Opinion - Joe Mahoney on Discount Drug Plans
In My Opinion - Prescription for a new year
Oregon Considered - Activists lobby for prescription drug reform

Campaign Finance Reform

Money in Politics Research Action Project News Release - Oregon Restaurant Association and small town living wage efforts collide
Medford Mail Tribune - Election solution
Portland City Club Research Study Endorsing Measure 6 PDF
Mail Tribune - Contributions pay
The Oregonian Big political donations trump people's interest
Oregonian - Clean Money: Not all PACs are created equal
Eugene Weekly - Bribery Reform
Willamette Week Following the money (scroll down the page)
The Oregonian - Money Talks (op-ed)
Timberline 1999 - Idea - Campaign Finance Reform

Food Stamps & Welfare Reform

Skanner - State may expand food stamp form
OPB - DHS household visits get mixed reaction
OPB - Frist DHS head gets a protest visit
OPB - New DHS visits not always welcome (Listen)
The Skanner - Welfare funds are running short
OPB - Oregon farmers fare well in farm bill (Listen)
Western Region Anti Hunger Consortium News - Success in Boise! Senator Crapo postpones Farm Bill hearing to discuss Food Stamp reauthorization with NWFCO affiliates
National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support - NWFCO halts farm bill hearing; puts food stamps on the agenda
Welfare Information Network - State initiatives on food stamp reform -Oregon
McMinnville News Register - Oregon Food Stamp use jumps 32%
Disclosure Online - Food stamp users seek program reforms
Center for Community Change Organizing newsletter - States continue to hoard anti-poverty dollars
Portland Business Journal - Human Services awards food stamps to immigrants
Portland Mercury - Let them eat bureaucrats
Ford Foundation Collaborations that Count - Action on hunger in Oregon: the Oregon collaboration wins positive policy change
Welfare Law Center News - Oregon activists achieve huge improvements in food stamp program
Colorlines - Welfare Organizing at the Grassroots
OCPP News Release: Immigrants win food stamp benefits; agency balks at implementation
The Other Paper - New Food Stamp changes benefit working poor Oregonians
Oregonian, December 2000
Center for Community Change Organizing newsletter - Oregon coalition brings low income voice to the table for food stamp reform
OPB Seven Days - Oregon Food Stamp program
McMinnville News Register - Food stamp recipients rally
Tidepool - Hunger points to larger issues
OPB - Report finds food stamp program mired in red tape
Register-Guard, April 2000
OPB Seven Days
Canby Herald - Stamping out hunger
Willamette Week - Food Thoughts
Common Dreams - USDA study shows food stamps not reaching Oregonians
Oregonian, October 1999

Economic Justice

Oregonian Commentary - Bush's Economic Voodoo
Portland Alliance - Oregon Action highlights handouts for billionaires
In My Opinion - Stimulus plan has wrong priorities

Job Gap/Living Wage

Indymedia - Wal-Mart Action in Talent
OR AFL-CIO Year in Review 2001 (see June)
Mail Tribune - Oregon Action report is topic
Eastern Oregon Now - Gap is widening between those with money and those without
Practicioner - Living Wage Movement Gains Momentum in Oregon (PDF)
Citizens for Florence newsletter - Most open jobs don't pay living wage
Mail Tribune - Job efforts fail to slow poverty
McMinnville News Register - Study says most jobs in Oregon pay less than living wage
Mail Tribune - Income Gap
Northwest Labor Press - Oregon jobs don't pay living wages
Medford Mail Tribune - Many jobs don't pay life's bills
Mail Tribune - Old timber fight spills into wage debate
Mail Tribune - Call center would create 250 jobs
Mail Tribune - Quality jobs needed
Mail Tribune - Action group pushes for better pay
Mail Tribune - Living Wage proponents meet to discuss campaign
Mail Tribune - Living Wage campaign starts today
Mail Tribune - Labor forum has wide participation

Living Wage - Ashland Living Wage Campaign

Medford Mail Tribune - Community Health Center and Community Works increase workers' pay to Ashland living wage
Mail Tribune - How decent is our society? letter to the editor
Data Center Economic Justice Program - Living wage passes in Ashland
Mail Tribune - Ashland passes living wage, group looks to Medford
Mail Tribune - Ashland ponders living wage
Mail Tribune - Ashland wil reexamine living wages
Ashland Daily Tidings - City Forms Living Wage Committee
Money in Politics Research Action Project News Release - Oregon Restaurant Association and small town living wage efforts collide
Daily Tidings - Living Wage Good for the Economy
Daily Tidings - DeBoer Taps Citizens for Living Wage Commitee
Daily Tidings - DeBoer Confuses Economic Roles

Other Oregon Action news items; leaders in the news

Medford Mail Tribune -Institute serves needs of American Indians
Mail Tribune - A second chance
Mail Tribune - Advocate for mentally ill wins state award
Mail Tribune - Neighborhood seeks new options (Safeway campaign)
Mail Tribune - Groups hope to persuade Safeway to stay
Mail Tribune - Group tackles store problem
Mail Tribune - Farmworker Solidarity Celebration
Mail Tribune - Deregulation of energy still has juice
Headwaters - "Guest workers" with limited rights are preferred over citizens
PCUN Update - Labor and latinos fight Wyden's guest worker bill