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Latinos with dark skin face more discrimination, study finds

The Pew Research Center has found that skin tone impacts the everyday lives and the long-term success of Latinos in the U.S.

Nov. 5, 2021

Collin O'Coyne has been a manager at Cornucopia Restaurant in Eugene for 2 years. He is one of four out of 45 employees who gets one week of paid time off per year. He estimates the restaurant would have to raise its prices about $2 per plate in order to offer paid sick time to all of its employees.

Represented: Paid Sick Time

In this installment of our "Represented" series, we hear from residents of Eugene about what a statewide paid sick leave policy would mean for them.

May 29, 2015

Vivian Kirkpatrick Pilger is president of Josephine County Republican Women. She had to take an early retirement for medical reasons, and her husband has only had intermittent work since the financial crisis. "It's not good...I really can't afford to pay an increase in tax." And she's not alone. "We have a lot of poor people here (and) a lot of people who are underemployed," she observes — a problem she ascribes to the loss of the timber industry a couple decades ago. "Our county officials knew that was happening and they have done nothing at all to resolve those issues."

Represented: Limited Law Enforcement In SW Oregon

We travel to financially-troubled Josephine County — where sheriff's deputies patrol only 10 hours a day — to hear about life in a region with limited law enforcement.

May 14, 2015

Emma Funk is a barista in a Forest Grove coffee shop. She says she makes ends meet just fine working at $10/hour, near Oregon's minimum wage. She says she lives within her means, has roommates and doesn't overspend. She says $15/hour sounds high, and thinks the federal minimum wage is a good standard.

Represented: Oregon's Minimum Wage

In this installment of our "Represented" series, we gathered in the East Portland neighborhood of Rosewood to talk with workers, business owners and others about raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

April 22, 2015

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