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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. ....