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Every State of the Union speech touts statistical indicators—after all, it is meant to be an accounting of the current state of things—but President Obama went one step further on Tuesday: the indicators stood right next to him.
On the White House website’s version of the broadcast (the version also streamed on YouTube), a near-constant litany of numbers, charts, quotes, and photos accompanied the president on screen. From alarming stats on infrastructure quality to wordy bullet points about...
A new report released last week by researchers at PSU's Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (IMS)—GPP's host institution—and Worksystems, Inc. gives an in-depth analysis of households in Oregon that are not meeting the Self-Sufficiency Standard. (The Standard is an alternative to the Federal Poverty Level, which measures how much income is required to meet a household’s basic living expenses without subsidies.) According to the report, which is entitled "Where the Ends Don't Meet," around 35 percent of households in the Portland metro area don't meet this standard, and this rate is on the rise.
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