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	<title>Cascade Policy Institute - Oregon Public Policy</title>
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		<title>Only 12% of Idahoans Would Choose a Public School for Their Children</title>
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The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice recently released a poll of 1,000 likely voters in Idaho. If they “could select any type of school,” a whopping 12% would choose a “regular public school,” little more than half the number who would choose homeschooling (21%). Private schools were most popular, at 39%, followed by charter schools [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cascadepolicy.org/2008/05/14/only-12-percent-of-idahoans/</link>
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		<title>Suffer the Little Children: How lack of transparency in a state agency endangers children</title>
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A federal review found Oregon’s Child Welfare program to be in “substantial conformity” with NONE of the national standards for seven client outcome measures. The most important mission of DHS is protecting children from harm. Government transparency requires that DHS meet the benchmarks demanded by Governor Kulongoski and release relevant proof to the public. 
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		<link>http://www.cascadepolicy.org/2008/05/14/suffer-the-little-children/</link>
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		<title>In Oregon, Words Matter, Results Don’t</title>
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Does planning have to work to be successful?
We Oregonians believe many myths about ourselves that just don’t happen to be true. As a visioning group created by the Governor put it not too long ago: We Love Dreamers!
For instance, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently came to town and congratulated Portland on reducing its carbon emissions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cascadepolicy.org/2008/05/07/in-oregon-words-matter/</link>
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		<title>Kids Can’t Wait</title>
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Why has Governor Ted Kulongoski left at-risk and abused kids waiting during six years of his administration? His rallying cry is “Kids can’t wait,” but a close look at Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) Child Welfare programs uncovers the troubling fact that his administration certainly has allowed many children to wait. 
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		<link>http://www.cascadepolicy.org/2008/05/07/kids-cant-wait/</link>
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		<title>How Much Does State Government Cost Each Oregonian?</title>
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Ask even reasonably knowledgeable people how big the Oregon state budget is this biennium, and they likely will tell you that it’s around $15 billion, which is actually just the General Fund. The All Funds Budget is $48 billion—$6,376 per year for every man, woman and child in Oregon. Taxpayers deserve to know exactly how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cascadepolicy.org/2008/04/30/state-government-cost/</link>
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		<title>The high cost of “free” health care</title>
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Those who advocate using the federal Medicare program as a model for “universal health care” in America claim that it only spends two percent of its budget on administrative functions.  
But that pales in comparison to what Harvard professor Malcolm Sparrow believes may be the 20 percent eaten up in fraud and mismanagement. Parade [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cascadepolicy.org/2008/04/29/high-cost/</link>
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		<title>Food or Fuel?</title>
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Last year the Oregon legislature passed three bills (HB 2210, 2211 and 2212) to subsidize and to provide incentives to Oregonians to produce biofuels. Promotion of homegrown ethanol and similar biofuels was seen as an answer to high global oil prices and supply worries. The Oregon Environmental Council predicted 100 million gallons would be produced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cascadepolicy.org/2008/04/23/food-or-fuel/</link>
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		<title>How Much Does Oregon Spend Per Student?</title>
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Calculating the true per-student cost of public education in Oregon is complicated, but taxpayers have a right to expect government to be transparent about spending and to provide honest figures — calculated from a taxpayer’s perspective. 
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No other question in public education seems to start an argument more than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cascadepolicy.org/2008/04/16/how-much-does-oregon-spend/</link>
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		<title>Clean Air, and Getting Cleaner</title>
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Recently the Environmental Protection Agency tightened the standard for ground-level ozone by 11 percent. Ozone is formed by the mixing of certain pollutants such as car exhaust in the presence of sunlight, and can irritate lungs and damage crops. 
Predictably, local environmentalists immediately complained that the reduction didn’t go far enough, pointing to the rise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cascadepolicy.org/2008/04/15/clean-air/</link>
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		<title>Poverty Is About People, Not Money</title>
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Journalist Andrew Gumble recently wrote in The Independent (UK): “Poverty deepens when the wealthy don’t care. Poverty deepens when the super wealthy simply get greedy. No other explanation is possible.” In fact, many other explanations are possible. 
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Many aspects of poverty alleviation work are foggy. How people move in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cascadepolicy.org/2008/04/08/poverty-is-about-people/</link>
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