Oregon has a graduated individual tax which ranges from 4.75%-9.90%. There is no state sales tax in Oregon. The constitution includes a “kicker” that caps tax revenue limits. When the total tax revenue exceeds the limit by more than two percent, the excess must be returned to taxpayers....
The economy has transitioned out of the inflationary economic boom and into what will hopefully become a sustained expansion. So far the Federal Reserve appears to be threading the needle. High interest rates were needed when inflation was running near double-digit rates, but no longer. The key ...
Finally, we can compare this gap between local homeownership rates for white, non-Hispanic Portlanders and their BIPOC neighbors. When we do that in recent years you can see that the relative gap remains the same. Please ignore some of the individual data points, especially at the tail end o...
The positive movement we saw on the average sale price and buyer demand were no thanks to mortgage rates. Mortgage rates are still higher than they were last year at this time, and they still haven’t moved much this last week. The best rate I saw on Thursday morning was 6.5% for the...
In the simplest terms, aCost of Livingindex is the estimated amount that represents the cost of the basic necessities required for an individual to live. Acost of livingorCOLestimate may typically include estimates for housing, food, energy, medical care, transportation, taxes, and other necessit...
In its evaluation process, ACCET noted PFI’s strengths in the quality of its classes and teachers, its connection to the Portland’s apparel companies and its graduation and placement rates. ACCET accredits continuing education and training programs at more than 214 schools nationwide. It was ...
n. Multinomial logistic regression estimates pij, the probability that the response for an individual i is equal to j, relative to and the j = 1, i.e., the reference category (Elff, 2021). We set the reference category to “not enroll”. Thus, our model provides insight into the ...