In the News

The Capital Chronicle reported on the Portland City Club discussion of the Prosperity Council’s recommendations, quoting Joe Cortright’s analysis of the weak economic performance of states the council claimed were role models that Oregon should emulate.  It wrote:

The prosperity council’s recommendations referred to states such as Arizona, Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. In a scathing recent analysis, however, the left-leaning Oregon economic observer Joe Cortright noted that those states lag behind Oregon’s performance for measures such as median household wealth, per capita income, GDP growth and the percentage of self-employed people.