By Oregon Employment Department by Nick Beleiciks As of January 1, 2014, Oregon’s minimum wage is $9.10. Oregon has the second highest minimum wage in the nation behind our neighbor to the north, Washington, at $9.32. Nationwide, the minimum wage is $7.25. Over the past decade in Oregon, the minimum […]

Patrick Emerson PhD , OSU Economist Oregon Economics Blog I pop my head up above the earth to post this little gem from the wonderful New York Times’ Upshot blog. They have one for each state and it is some fun clicking. The graphic here does not label the vertical […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog This Graph of the Week is an update on the Oregon spider chart. See here for more on the construction of the graph which follows the pioneering work by the Atlanta Fed at the national level. As a reminder the chart […]

Associated Oregon Industries Oregon’s largest business advocate by Betsy Earls At first glance, the cities of Troutdale and Eugene aren’t much the same. But they have one thing in common, both are located in “home rule” counties. Nine counties in Oregon, including Lane and Multnomah, operate under home rule charters, […]

California Lutheran University Housing is traditionally a very volatile sector of the economy. It tends to lead the business sector (indeed, some economists like Ed Leamer of the UCLA Forecasting Group say that housing IS the business cycle). Housing is subject to booms and busts. A case in point is […]

By Oregon Tax News Thousands of Oregonian and millions of American households would no longer receive door-to-door mail delivery service under legislation proposed by Representative Daryl Issa (R-CA). Instead, a growing number of households will be assigned to a local “cluster” box, where mail is distributed by U.S. postal workers […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog Besides just stronger national growth, another way for top line U.S. job figures to improve is for more states or regions to share in the recovery. Back in December I noted that the Northeast and Midwest were growing much faster than […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Seattle is the center of one of the airline industry’s biggest turf wars, and the ultimate victor may be Northwest business travelers, both domestic and international. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has long been a hub for Alaska Airlines, which currently runs 253 flights out of Seattle […]

Barran Liebman Oregon Law Firm Cheaters Never Win—Or At Least They Shouldn’t: New Executive Order Requires Mea Culpa of Federal Contractors with Recent Labor Law Violations On July 31st, President Obama brushed aside threats of impeachment and passed yet another executive order, titled “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces.” The executive […]

By Oregon Department of Justice Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and 41 other state Attorneys General reached a $35 million settlement with Pfizer Inc, the parent company of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc., to resolve allegations that Wyeth promoted immunosuppressive drug Rapamune for off-label uses. As one of two lead states in […]