Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Oregon reaches new 23 year unemployment high

Oregon Live

Oregon seasonally adjusted unemployment rate hit a 23 year high of 9% in December breaking a previous record of 9.1% in April of 1995.

This could boost Oregon's unemployment rate from being the fifth worst in the nation to the third worst in the nation according to democrats in the Oregon senate.

"We have good reason to believe that federal dollars are on the way that will increase our capacity to help out-of-work Oregonians," said Sen. Diane Rosenbaum of Portland. She chairs the Senate Commerce and Workforce Development Committee.


let's keep those talks about raising taxes coming governor!

1 comment:

OregonGuy said...

Good news!

The latest state rankings aren't in yet, but there's a chance that we may be moving up from #5 to #3! There's even an off chance that we'll hit #2, with only Rustbound Michigan to top!

We can do it! We gotta pull together!

No common sense! Green Energy! And, don't forget the Kids!

Whooppee!
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