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Kerans wants to make more jobs
for Oregonians out of kicker tax
By Chris Norred
Of the Emerald
A program to make more jobs
for unemployed Oregonians
should be created with the
state’s 2 percent surplus kicker
tax money, said Sen. Grattan
Kerens, D-Eugene, Thursday.
The 2 percent surplus kicker
is an income tax credit that nor
mally is given to taxpayers if ac
tual revenue is more than 2 per
cent higher than it was forecast
at the time the budget was
adopted.
Kerens said the kicker would
provide a tax credit of about $50
for the average Oregonian next
year.
Kerens said legislators must
make a choice between getting
$50 for their constituents who
have jobs, or using that money
to make new jobs for their con
stituents who do not.
The program proposed by
Kerens is called the Wage in
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centive Program and would be
expected to create 20,000 new
jobs for Oregon workers in the
next biennium, he said. About
12.000 of those jobs would be
permanent.
The jobs program would cost
$105.6 million over the next
two years. That money would
come from the $136 million
surplus kicker.
But Gov. Neil Goldschmidt
has said he thinks the surplus
kicker money should be return
ed to the taxpayers.
At a press conference Thurs
day, representatives from a
broad coalition of groups spoke
in support of the Wage Incen
tive Program.
The program would be
modeled after a successful job
creation program developed in
Minnesota.
Unemployed workers would
qualify for the program after
they exhausted all their
unemployment insurance and
worker compensation benefits.
Employers would receive
money and resources necessary
to create new jobs when they
agreed not to reduce their
regular work force and to keep
the new employee for a
minimum of 26 weeks.
The business would receive
up to $4 an hour in wages and
up to $1 an hour in fringe
benefits to subsidize the new
employee’s wages. The
business would have to repay
70 percent of the money receiv
ed under the program if the new
employee’s job did not continue
after the 26-week period.
If the new employee stays on
the job for one year beyond the
26-week period, the business
would not have to repay the
money.
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The program would benefit
Oregon’s small businesses as
well as the unemployed, said
Rep, Shirley Gold, I)-Fortland.
“My district — a typical city
district — is almost totally small
business entrepreneurs. In con
versations with them I find
that...like families who can’t
afford what they need, the small
businesses do without needed
employees.”
Another proposal to help
Oregon’s unemployed was
presented by Rep. Darlene
Hooley. D-West Linn. Thurs
day. Hooley proposed a pro
gram designed by the Voluntary
Welfare Work Programs Task
Force, which calls for a revamp
ing of the current state job train
ing program.
The proposal calls for $12.6
million to be added to the cur
rent jobs program in this
biennium.
The revamping would allow
unemployed workers to spend
up to two years in the job train
ing program.
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is in fact going to be a public
process,” Dix said.
About 20 people have con
sistently opposed the project,
Obie said. "Really, I think
they’re saying they don’t agree
with the process,” he said.
“What we’ve agreed upon is
that the Riverfront project will
proceed forward,” said Rep.
Carl Hosticka. “But we’ll also
be working with others to make
sure it’s done right,” he said.
Dix also denied that Lane
County and Portland were team
ing up to get the biggest share of
the lottery dollars.
“If we’re to support this pro
ject, we’ve got an obligation to
support the other regional pro
jects in the state,” Dix said.
Goldschmidt has proposed a
$7.5 million down payment to
fund the Portland Convention
Center.
“The suggestion that Eugene
is getting more than its fair
share 1 don’t really unders
i tand,” he said.
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