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Turning Point 2020: Oregon’s Workforce from Expansion to Pandemic
The Oregon Employment Department Research section released its latest report, Turning Point 2020: Oregon’s Workforce from Expansion to Pandemic in June 2020. The report examines Oregon’s employment landscape from the end of the state’s longest economic expansion to the beginning of COVID-19 related record job losses. Here is an executive summary:
• Oregon’s unemployment rate rose from a
May 2020 Oregon Statewide Economic Indicators
This is the University of Oregon State of Oregon Economic Indicators for May 2020. The release date July 6, 2020. Special thanks to our sponsor, KeyBank Link to full report (with charts!) here. The Oregon Measure of Economic Activity rebounded… Continue Reading →
In Honor of Juneteenth: Black Oregonians in the Labor Force
This Friday June 19, celebrate freedom by celebrating Juneteenth! Short for “June Nineteenth,” Juneteenth commemorates the 1865 arrival of federal troops in Galveston, Texas, to ensure that all enslaved people be freed. Their arrival was over two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth is considered the longest-running African-American holiday (read more at