Oregon Employment Department, Recently, we posted about the recovery of Oregon’s jobs to pre-recession levels across higher-, lower-, and mid-wage industries alike in the fourth quarter of 2014. We also mentioned that Oregon’s total nonfarm employment also returned to (and exceeded) pre-recession levels in the fourth quarter.

By Oregon NFIB America’s largest and leading small-business association today named its new Oregon state director. In selecting Anthony K. Smith, the National Federation of Independent Business, which has 350,000 dues-paying members across the nation, including 7,500 in Oregon, went with an Oregon native who has extensive political experience and […]

By Economist Dr. Eric Fruits, Econinternational It’s not an illusion. Portland traffic is getting worse: Longer drive times, more congestion, angrier drivers, and “active transportation” that should be renamed “aggressive transportation.” And, it’s no accident. It’s all part of the City’s Vision Zero plan for transportation. One consequence of Vision […]

By Oregon Better Business Bureau Own or work at a small business? Be on the look out for a scam that attempts to fool businesses into paying fees to stay in compliance with government regulations that don’t even exist. How the Scam Works: You receive an official-looking letter in the […]

By Bullard Law, Portland law firm By Michael G. McClory Ahead of the opening kickoff for the 2015 college football season, the National Labor Relations Board has punted.  The Board dismissed a petition related to efforts to unionize the Northwestern University football team.  The dismissal, though, ducked the most contested […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog Just a quick update on the employment report. See our friends over at the Employment Department for the official release. The latest employment report for Oregon shows healthy job gains from the employer survey in July but a large increase in […]

Oregon NFIB Small business owners faced an onslaught of new proposals and laws from 2015 legislators. “Oregon’s 2015 legislative session became one of the most anti-business sessions in recent history,” says NFIB/Oregon State Director Jan Meekcoms. “For small business, this became a session of defensive action.” The regular session ended […]

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden Press Release, Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and Representatives Peter DeFazio, Kurt Schrader, Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici asked the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) and Oregon State University (OSU) to implement an industrial hemp pilot project in time for next year’s growing season, […]

U.S. Chamber of Commerce U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness President and CEO David Hirschmann today issued the following statement in regards to the final pay ratio rule released by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): “Congress added this disclosure to Dodd-Frank as a favor to union […]

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over Nike’s Jumpman Logo By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, A lawsuit charging Nike with copyright infringement has been dismissed in federal court. Photographer Jacobus Rentmeester filed the suit in January, claiming Nike used the pose in his copyrighted image of Michael Jordan when they created their […]