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Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Fogo de Chão Continues Northwest Expansion with New Location in Tigard
Leading Restaurant from Brazil is Set to Open Second Location in Oregon DALLAS, July 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fogo de Chão, the internationally renowned restaurant from Brazil known for its elevated churrasco dining experience, today announced the signing of a lease agreement for its second Oregon location in Tigard. The 7,695 square-foot space, set to open in late 2025, is situated at 17015 SW 72nd Ave in Bridgeport Village shopping center. 'We are highly encouraged by the success we have seen at our Portland location and we are excited to announce plans to open our second location in Oregon, and bring our exceptional cuisine to Tigard,' said Barry McGowan, Chief Executive Officer of Fogo de Chão. 'We look forward to welcoming the local community in to immerse themselves in the memorable dining experience Fogo de Chão has to offer.' The new restaurant in Tigard will showcase a spacious dining area built around an open churrasco grill. In the dining area, guests can enjoy a full 360-degree view of gaucho chefs expertly butchering, hand-carving, and grilling premium cuts of protein over an open flame. At the heart of the dining area, the Market Table will offer a vibrant selection of seasonal salads, fresh superfoods, cured meats, antipasti, and more. Designed to elevate the guest experience, the restaurant will feature inviting social spaces integrated throughout Bar Fogo and the dining areas, encouraging guests to relax, engage, and enjoy All-Day Happy Hour in a warm, conversational atmosphere. Adding to the indulgent offerings, dry-aged meat lockers will showcase exceptional cuts such as the 32 oz. Long-Bone Tomahawk Ribeye, aged for at least 42 days to enhance its deep, rich flavor. For more information about Fogo, please visit About Fogo de ChãoFogo de Chão (fogo-dee-shown) is an internationally renowned restaurant from Brazil that elevates the culinary art of churrasco – the art of roasting high-quality cuts of meat over an open flame – into a cultural dining experience created for all diet tribes. Fogo is famed for its prix fixe Full Churrasco Experience that offers a continuous selection of premium cuts butchered daily by gaucho chefs, simply seasoned and grilled to create a craveable salty bark, then carved tableside. The naturally gluten-free Market Table offers a selection of nutrient-dense seasonal salads, charcuterie, exotic fruit, superfoods and more. From celebratory to everyday occasions, Fogo provides selections for every daypart, including All-Day Happy Hour at Bar Fogo, Weekday Lunch, Dinner, and Weekend Brazilian Brunch. Guests can enhance their experience with offerings ranging from a shareable Wagyu New York Strip, South American wines, and more. For locations and to book a reservation to experience the fire of Fogo, visit de Chão's second location in Oregon is set to open at the Bridgeport Village shopping center in late 2025. de Chão's new Tigard restaurant will feature an expansive dining room. Bar Fogo and dining room areas will feature many high-end social gathering spaces, carefully integrated to elevate the guest experience at the new Tigard location. MEDIA CONTACT:ICR for FogoFogoPR@ Photos accompanying this announcement are available at: in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Forbes
24-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Social Security Faces Cuts Even Though There's A Fix For Its Problems
FILE - A Social Security card is displayed on Oct. 12, 2021, in Tigard, Ore. The go-broke dates for ... More Medicare and Social Security's trust funds have moved up as rising health care costs and new legislation affecting Social Security benefits have contributed to closer projected depletion dates. That's according to an annual report released Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File) Social Security continues to be in trouble. Pundits and congressional representatives often argue at length about what needs to be done to keep an important safety net that has repeatedly proven its value by reducing poverty. Suggestions include raising the retirement age and cutting benefits. No need to worry about the latter as that will happen automatically in 2033. And yet, it doesn't need to, as there's a straightforward solution to the problem. It's just one that people in Congress seem to dislike. The Growing Problem The recent The 2025 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds — called the 2025 OASDI Trustees Report for short — had, as has become usual, more sobering news about Social Security. Using current assumptions, the cost of the two funds 'exceeds total income in every year of the long-range period, which runs from 2025 through 2099.' By 2033, the OSAI reserves will be exhausted, triggering an automatic cut of 23%. Every older retired person you know who has eked out living expenses from Social Security will find themselves losing almost a quarter of their income. (The Disability Insurance Trust Fund wouldn't be depleted and so doesn't face the same deadline.) Backfilling the program will be difficult. First, the United States continues to bet on borrowing money to pay its bills by selling Treasury notes and bonds. These instruments have a price that one pays to provide a loan, and a yield — the interest paid on the money the country borrows. Social Security. On secondary markets, the price and yield move inversely. The higher the yield, the lower the price, meaning there's less demand, which has increasingly been the case. Borrowing money through selling Treasury instruments means paying higher interest rates, increasing the national debt. Service on that debt is already more than a trillion dollars a year. That's already more than the annual Department of Defense budget and will continue to grow. A General Fix The typical discussion about fixing the retirement fund is that the shortfall is due to an aging population. That frequently gets people upset because they say they paid into the system and should get everything back. That's not how Social Security works. It was never a personal savings account. Instead, it's more like insurance. People pay into the system over the long haul, with the collected funds used to cover payouts when necessary. Like insurance premiums, the regular payment of Social Security-related taxes aren't yours. They go into keeping the system going. According to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, to set things right, either an immediate 29% increase in payroll taxes or a 22% cut in benefits would be necessary to set things straight. Or some combination of the two. Wait to start until 2034 and it would require a 34% increase in payroll taxes, or 26% benefits cut. That's points to the power of compound interest. A Different Twist On Taxes When considering taxes, the expectation is that everyone's payroll taxes should go up. But according to a long-standing view of the Social Security Administration's Chief Actuary Stephen Goss, there is a slightly different take. The big problem has been rising income inequality, particularly between 1983 and 2000. The best-paid 6% of people saw their incomes rise by 62% in inflation-adjusted terms. The other 94% saw their incomes increase by only 17%. The large portion of income gains of the top 6% were above the maximum taxable income level. They got out of paying the same percentage of their incomes into the system that everyone else paid. There is also the compounding factor that, for many years, the Federal Reserve kept interest rates low, meaning yields of Treasury instruments fell and Social Security, which is required by law to invest only in these, made a lot less investment income. One possibility is to remove the cap from payroll taxes and let the wealthiest pay the same percentage of their income as everyone else. Even though that won't immediately make up for the 17-year period of sharp growth, it would help bring in more revenue.
Fox News
05-06-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Oregon girls open up on 'traumatic' trans athlete experiences that pushed them to fight back
Oregon high school senior Alexa Anderson is now a budding conservative heroine, but she comes from a family of Democrats. When the Tigard High School track and field star refused to stand on the same podium as a trans athlete at the state championship on Saturday, alongside fellow medalist Reese Eckard, Anderson learned right away the treatment an act like that prompted from the political side her family traditionally aligned with. "When me and Reese stepped down there was definitely some confusion, there was definitely some anger and just a lot of people who didn't understand why were were doing this, and it was scary. Everyone was looking at us," Anderson told Fox News Digital. "There was a lot of people on and off the field. I heard shouts of them telling us to get out of the way." The backlash did not end on the field. "There has also been a handful of people that just really don't understand that are reaching out and are calling me a bad person," she added. "When I received one of the first hate comments I kind of just brushed it off, I responded saying 'thank you for sharing your opinion, I respect your opinion, this is mine and this is what I stood for' but it didn't really bother me too much because I was prepared for it, I knew this was going to happen, and I have so many people behind me, supporting me and that number greatly outweighs the people who have been hateful toward me." Anderson was warned by friends, coaches and family about what would happen if she took the stand she took. However, she felt she had to do something as soon as she found out she would be competing against the trans athlete last week. The teen considered withdrawing from the competition altogether, but could not bring herself to waste all of her hard work to get to that point. So she and Eckard came up with the podium idea. Anderson had never even competed against a trans athlete herself in competition prior to that point, but she felt compelled to demonstrate her opposition for the sake of the other girls across the country, especially in her state, who have been impacted by trans inclusion. One of those girls is Glencoe High School junior Lily Hammond. As a sophomore in the winter of 2023-24, Hammond said she unknowingly competed against and shared a locker room with a biological male opponent on another team. She said she competed against the athlete multiple times, assuming the athlete was a biological female. "It wasn't until the last meet that I realized 'oh, that is a trans person,' and by that point it was too late," Hammond told Fox News Digital. "The shock that came was the mistrust and the lying, I felt very betrayed, I felt betrayed by the adults and the coaches on the other team that let it happen without my consent and my knowledge. My team didn't know, my coach didn't know… I felt very violated knowing that a man could have seen me changing." Hammond said she already had to deal with transgender students at her high school entering the girls' restrooms on a regular basis, but she called the experience with her swim team "traumatic." "At the time it was overwhelming and felt traumatic since I was kept in the dark," she said. Hammond is not the only Oregon girl "traumatized" by the issue either. Forest Grove High School senior Maddie Eischen and Newberg High School junior Sophia Carpenter were faced with the prospect of competing against a trans athlete in a state competition called the Chehalem Classic back on April 18. So both of them refused to compete. "I found out the day before, which led to me feeling the need to scratch myself from the meet. The whole day I had anxiety," Eischen told Fox News Digital. "My experience at the Chehalem track meet and scratching myself from the meet was traumatic, something I never imagined ever having to do." Carpenter said she found herself so overwhelmed with emotion from the experience, that she cried on the ride home after the meet. "It was emotionally traumatic trying to know what I should do and how I should respond to competing with [the trans athlete]," Carpenter said. The experience pushed Carpenter to make a visible point when she competed at the state championships this weekend. She showed up to her high jump competition sporting a T-shirt from the activist sportswear brand XX-XY Athletics. Now, beyond just speaking up against the state's current laws that enable males in their sports, Anderson, Hammond and Carpenter suggested the issue will play heavily into how they vote in future political elections. "Just this last election, looking at the different beliefs between the two candidates, you had one candidate who openly believes biological men should be allowed in women's restrooms and women's sports, and was not doing anything, and then you had another candidate who said 'this will be one of the first things I change,' and that's what Donald Trump did," Hammond said. "In the future, that's something I'm going to look for." Carpenter added, "I've always believed in voting based on the constitution… and while Title IX was not one of the first things that was brought up when our country was created, it goes back to the first amendment and basic human rights, and women deserve these rights too, and right now they're being given to men who feel a certain way." Additionally, while the trans athletes that each of the girls faced played into their trauma, their stand against the state's liberal laws on the issue is not directed at those individuals. It is directed at the lawmakers and education officials who have enabled the males to get to that point. "I feel that they've just been misled," Hammond said. "The faculty at my school is feeding this, the faculty at other schools are feeding this saying 'it's okay if you want to be another person.'" In the last few days, Oregon has become one of the nation's heated battlegrounds on the issues, as the state represents symbolic significance in the sport of track and field. Eugene, Oregon, nicknamed "TrackTown USA," often hosts the World Athletics Championships, U.S. Olympic Trials and NCAA Championships. Now, Anderson's stunt at the high school state championship has put the state under a national microscope and a legal firm has already taken steps to bring federal action against the state. While the Trump administration has focused much of its attention on the issues in Maine and California, launching federal investigations and even a Department of Justice lawsuit against Maine, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) filed a civil rights complaint calling for federal intervention. "Our investigation into Title IX and First Amendment violations in Oregon is about standing up for girls and women sidelined, silenced, and stripped of the fairness and freedom they're guaranteed under federal law," AFPI senior legal strategy attorney Leigh Ann O'Neill told Fox News Digital. "When young women are told to compete against male athletes or stay quiet—or, worse, are punished for speaking the truth—we have to act. Because no one is above the Constitution—not even state sports officials." Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
