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Oregon unemployment rate creeps to 5% following post-COVID recovery

  • Shaanth Nanguneri

Oregon’s unemployment rate rose to 5% in July, marking the state’s highest rate of joblessness since Oregonians began regaining opportunities to work that were lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Oregon Employment Department announced the figures in mid-August, noting that the state lost 2,700 jobs in July and 24,600 jobs total since the state […]

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State considers expanding self service

  • by Mark Miller, Oregon Capital Bureau
  • Updated

SALEM — A bill introduced in the House would allow more gas stations to offer self-service pumps. Oregon and New Jersey are the only two states in the Union that don’t allow self-service gas stations statewide.