Rolling Up Our Sleeves: Building an Oregon That Works for Working Families

State of Working Oregon 2008-2009, Oregon Center For Public Policy

In this report, we outline strategies for building an Oregon that works for working families. The specific recommendations fall under three broad categories: policies that strengthen the public sector’s role in promoting shared prosperity, policies that secure the incomes of working families and reforms to the tax system that make it fairer for working families and generate revenue for public systems that create opportunity.

http://www.ocpp.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?page=SWO2008main

COBRA Subsidies for Laid-Off Workers: An Initial Report Card
Commonwealth Fund; California HealthCare Foundation
Bovbjerg, Randall R.; Stan Dorn; Juliana Macri; Jack Meyer
Published: December 2009

Reviews the implementation of the government subsidy of COBRA health insurance premiums for laid-off workers in the 2009 stimulus package and its effects on COBRA enrollment and medical spending. Considers policy implications for access and affordability.

Funder(s): California HealthCare Foundation, Commonwealth Fund
Subject(s): Public Affairs; Health; Health, Health Insurance/Coverage
Publication Type: Issue Brief

PubHub Link (8 pages; 557KB; PDF) http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Issue%20Brief/2009/Dec/1358_Dorn_COBRA_issue_brief_1223.pdf

source: Foundation Center