Unions in Oregon are campaigning for a November ballot measure, known as Measure 97, that will require corporations that have over 25 million dollars in sales in the state to pay their fair share and help fund public education, health care and senior services.

JoAnne Powers reports.

Katherine Driessen is Press Secretary for the ‘A Better Oregon’ Campaign, a coalition of labor unions and other progressive groups supporting the measure: 

[Katherine Driessen]: “For about two decades now in Oregon, we’ve seen significant disinvestments in those services.  Corporations doing business here are effectively paying the lowest corporate taxes in the country. 

Measure 97 asks predominantly large and out-of-state corporations to pay a slightly higher tax on their income here. 

Our measure would raise enough revenue to make a meaningful difference in our schools and would also help us provide better in-home care to seniors, provide more affordable and more successful health care to Oregonians.”