Cascade Employers Blog This January, The Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) announced it is making changes to the Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification exams beginning August 1, 2018.

By Taxpayer Association of Oregon Foundation, Housing is the single biggest factor driving the cost-of-living. Recent research finds Portland, Oregon is one of the most “severely unaffordable” major housing markets in the world — ranking 67th. Because of the high cost of housing, Oregon has the fifth highest cost-of-living in […]

National Federation of Independent Businesses  “Oregon was a pioneer in recognizing the importance of providing tax relief to small businesses when it created the Small Business Tax Cut as part of the ‘Grand Bargain’ in 2013 – a similar policy to the new federal policy. However, the Oregon policy is […]

Congressman Peter DeFazio Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR-04) today applauded the decision by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to award a $300,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to mAbDx Inc., a Eugene-based immunodiagnostics company.

1. House Speaker: Cap now, finish bill in 2019 2. Oregon lawmakers move toward repealing tax break  3. Ore. officials struggle on which pot sites are legal 4. Colleges Separating Into Winners & Losers 5. Jenner just wiped $1.7B off Snapchat  6. Chinese Casino Conquered a Piece of America 7. […]

Oregon’s Coffee Shops Continue to Perk Up Oregon Workforce and Economic Information According to the National Coffee Association of the U.S.A., which has tracked coffee consumption through annual surveys since 1950, 83 percent of Americans 18 years and older say they drink coffee and 62 percent drink it daily. With […]

Bullard Law By Jason W. Douthit By now, you have probably heard about the recent changes to tax rates for individuals and businesses, the personal exemption, and the cap on deductions for state, local and property taxes. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the Act) changed several other […]

By Oregon NFIB, [Note: SB 1528 has hearing today] In response to the new federal tax laws, the Oregon Senate has proposed a state-level tax overhaul. According to the Oregonian, the proposed tax changes–contained in two bills–would ensure Oregon taxes multinational corporations’ offshore cash, help higher net worth taxpayers get […]

Oregon Economic and Revenue Forecast, March 2018 Oregon Office of Economic Analysis by Josh Lehner This morning the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis released the latest quarterly economic and revenue forecast. For the full document, slides and forecast data please see our main website. Below is the forecast’s Executive Summary.

Oregon’s Company Headquarters: Strong Growth Oregon Workforce and Economic Information While Oregon is home to just two Fortune 500 companies, that doesn’t mean headquarters don’t have an impact on our economy. Oregon’s 1,300 establishments in the ‘management of companies’ sector employ nearly 47,000 people and pay a whopping average wage […]