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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP A Better Direction for Oregon's "Prosperity Roadmap"
Description: In early December, Governor Kotek unveiled âOregonâs Prosperity Roadmapâ and laid out âthree broad goalsâ to grow business, jobs, and the economy. While acknowledging Oregonâs economic decline, her roadmap is only an updated cover for the same GPS coordinates: driving prosperity via state programs.Oregonâs latest âprosperity roadmapâ promises growth through new programs and administrative solutionsâbut decades of similar plans havenât reversed our decline. Oregonâs governors have been cycling through similar campaigns since Neil Goldschmidt touted âOregon Shinesâ in 1989. The problem isnât the map. Itâs the direction.Eighty-five...