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Oregon’s unemployment rate has reached 5% according to the latest update from the Oregon Employment Department. The state ...
The state lost 2,700 jobs in July and 24,600 jobs total since the state logged last year’s July 2024 unemployment rate of 4.2 ...
Oregon employers dropped 2,700 non-farm jobs in July, bringing the state’s unemployment rate to 5%, according to the latest ...
Oregon’s unemployment rate hit 5% in July, its highest level in nearly four years. The jobless rate hasn’t topped that ...
Excluding the pandemic period, July's unemployment rate was the highest it has been since the beginning of 2016.
Outside of that COVID spike — which pushed unemployment up to a high of nearly 14% in April 2020 before job levels recovered ...
In a major win for Oregon unions, the state got one big step closer to providing unemployment benefits for striking workers on Wednesday. The House of Representatives voted 33-23 to authorize the ...
Oregon's unemployment rate climbed to 4.8% in May, up from 4.7% in April, continuing a gradual increase from 4.1% in May 2024.
UPDATE (May 6, 11:25 a.m. PT) – The rules that have governed Oregon's unemployment system for decades were upended in March when Congress passed the CARES Act. At first, it looked like nothing ...
Oregon’s online system to apply for unemployment insurance is getting an upgrade, a move years in the making as evidence mounted that the Employment Department’s outdated technology was too ...