Oregon jobless rate sees biggest increase since spring of 2020 by Tim Gruver, The Center Square | January 22, 2021 09:00 AM Print this article
Oregon saw 25,500 jobs lost in December, marking the biggest employment dip since last April, the Oregon Employment Department reports.
Data from the agency s most recent report on Wednesday shows the job losses resulted from the state’s unemployment rate rising from 6.0% in November to 6.4% in December.
Oregon s jobless rate still falls below the national jobless rate which has hung around 6.7% for the past couple of months, but follows nearly seven months of steady gains.
The vast majority of December s job losses stemmed from Oregon s struggling leisure and hospitality industry, which employed some
From The City Club of Eugene:
As the new year dawns, communities throughout the Oregon Coast face unique economic challenges and opportunities.
On the one hand, as recently detailed by the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis, rural Oregon including the Coast has lost a smaller share of jobs than urban Oregon since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the other, as shown in the chart below (left), prior to the onset of the pandemic, rural Oregon had barely regained the level of jobs prior to the “Great Recession” of 2007-2009 continuing a troubling pattern of lagging economic growth. The effects of this geographic inequality go far beyond economics, affecting everything from life expectancy (see chart, below right) to access to health insurance.
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Landlords go to federal court to block new evictions moratorium
They argue that Oregon should offer full compensation for back rents due to them.
Even before Gov. Kate Brown signs it, some landlords have sued in federal court to overturn Oregon s latest extension of a moratorium on residential evictions.
The lawsuit was filed Monday, Dec. 21 barely hours after the Legislature passed House Bill 4401 on behalf of Moe Farhoud, owner of Stark Firs Management of Portland, and other landlords. It names Brown, the state, Multnomah County and Portland as defendants in the action filed with U.S. District Court in Portland.