Oregon Worker News Today

Oregon Worker Relief has launched the Home Fund, to provide short-term rental assistance to households facing eviction or housing instability.

The funds are intended to fill the gaps for some farmworkers who had to choose between their safety and their paycheck.

The funds are intended to fill the gaps for some farmworkers who had to choose between their safety and their paycheck.

Immigrant workers were disproportionately harmed by the pandemic, but were ineligible for public assistance. So the Oregon Relief Fund stepped in.

Salem, OR -- Oregon Small Enterprise Fund (SEF) is reopening today for financial relief to Oregon businesses excluded from federal pandemic relief assistance programs due to the owners’ immigration status.

Oregon fund provides $60 million in relief to immigrants, says more needed Updated 11:26 AM; Today 11:26 AM The Oregon Worker Relief has disbursed more than $60 million in pandemic relief to immigrant communities. (Faith Cathcart/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian Facebook Share Oregon immigrants have received more than $60 million in pandemic relief through the Oregon Worker Relief Fund over the last year, according to the coalition of advocacy groups that pushed to establish the program. That ...