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Asking The Legislature To Address Inequality

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Oregon legislative sessions are meant to be short and tame affairs in even-numbered years.  These are not the sessions that set budget priorities. 

But there's pressure on the current legislative session to produce laws to help minorities and low-income people, and the threat of ballot measures if the legislature does not produce on issues like minimum wage hikes. 

Fair Shot for Oregon has a list of items--including wages--it would like the legislature to address.  We hear the items on the list from Kayse Jama of the Center For Intercultural Organizing and Graham Trainor of Oregon AFL-CIO, two of the organizations in the Fair Shot coalition.  
 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.