By Portland Business Alliance What sector provides 59 percent more in benefits and 8 percent more in wages across education levels? What sector employs 11 percent of Portland-metro’s workforce? The answer to those questions is: the manufacturing sector. These findings are part of the latest Value of Jobs Coalition report […]

It has been one year since the death of American entrepreneur Steve Jobs and CNN does a look into how ell Apple has adjusted without its iconic leader.

By U.S. Chamber of Commerce Ever wonder if or how your small business should be using social media and what your competitors are doing in this realm? The SMB Group’s latest survey, 2012 Small and Medium Social Business Study, examines how and why small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) are using […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog One of the indicators used in our office’s Oregon Index of Leading Indicators is Help Wanted Ads. The theoretical basis for this is straight forward: if a business wants to hire another employee, the firm places an ad to notify prospective […]

Starbucks Leads the Way in Mobile Payments By Oregon Small Business Association Ordering a double-shot latte is easier and faster these days using Starbucks’ mobile payment program. Even before its recent $25 million investment in Square, the San Francisco mobile payments startup, Starbucks had been processing a million mobile-phone transactions […]

Patrick Emerson PhD , OSU Economist Oregon Economics Blog The economist has a nifty little discussion about the decline of the car in high income countries.  Here are two provocative graphs:

— Oregon Court of Appeals dismisses age discrimination suit for failure to follow employer’s ADR policy Ater Wynne LLP NW Law frim Last week, the Oregon Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of an employee’s age discrimination claim under state law for failure to comply with the employer’s grievance and […]

By NFIB Oregon The increasing threat of cybersecurity breaches are affecting small businesses in a big way. As with everything, knowledge is the power to protect yourself, which is why NFIB is encouraging its members in the Bend and Medford areas to attend a free, two-hour presentation by nationally recognized […]

NIKE’s slowdown in China is a bellwether for other firms in America. It impacts businesses down the chain.You can see their stock changes to the right on the video. See CNN Money report below:

“[H]igher education has literally never been more flush with cash than it is today, even after adjusting for the effects of inflation. The bottom line is that institutions have made no significant efforts whatsoever to keep their expenses in check. If you want to keep college affordable, this should be […]