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Portland, Oregon, homeless tax tests voter mood in pandemic

by Associated Press
| May 16, 2020 12:06 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Voters in metropolitan Portland, Oregon, will be asked Tuesday to approve taxes on personal income and business profits that would raise $2.5 billion over a decade to fight homelessness even as the state grapples with the coronavirus and its worst recession in years.

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