THE DALLES — Oregon’s state budget woes have impacted schools already suffering from increased costs, drops in enrollment, and the ending of federal COVID-19 relief funds.
SALEM (AP) — Oregon’s wine industry is on a post-recession roll with planted acres, wineries and sales all reporting gains, and with new interest from investors outside the state, a new assessment says.
JOSH BOAK and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writers
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy has finally regained the jobs lost to the Great Recession. But go easy on the hallelujahs. The comeback is far from complete.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s casino tax revenues have fallen faster than expected over the past six months, plunging nearly 15 percent amid more out-of-state competition and lagging admissions as consumers try to shake off the aftereffects of the recession.
Multi-family cabinet orders are among driving factors EUGENE (AP) — Inside three adjacent buildings at Lanz Cabinets in west Eugene, workers are churning out hundreds of cabinets a day for apartments and homes, from Seattle to San Diego.
CORVALLIS — The “empty nest” of past generations, in which the kids are grown up and middle-aged adults have more time to themselves, has been replaced in the United States by a nest that’s full — kids who can’t leave, can’t find a job and aging parents who need more help than ever before.
