Portland Public Schools announces tens of millions of dollars in upcoming budget cuts : Portland

More taxes is somehow the only solution to every problem in Oregon. A few years ago it was discovered that the guy running the joint office of homeless services was awarding 80% of contracts to his wife's non-profit outreach org. Somehow it was decided this was not a conflict of interest or in any way any kind of impropriety. The people running these supposed non-profits are profiting like a mfer, paying themselves hundreds of thousands per year. Everyone in the county making over $125k has to pay an extra 1% on their income tax that was supposed to pay for pre-school for every child, but after it was implemented the people administering that money decided they could only afford to pay for pre-school for black kids. Black people account for 5.4% of the county population.