Charles Langley, Utility Consumer’s Action Network is featured in this video analyzing the record breaking 2011 gas prices as a likely precursor to 2012 record price increases. See his interview at the beginning and the end. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Chart by Georgetown Center on Education & the Workforce Source: Arts, architecture & social science degrees take the biggest hit.

by Dan Mueller World of Employment Stoel Rives LLP, NW Law Firm The NLRB gave organized labor a meaningful gift just before the holidays by issuing a final rule adopting new election case procedures that will likely result in more and faster union elections, and probably also result in more […]

By Oregon Tax News Hundreds of health care related jobs in the Portland Metro area are being cut and more losses could be on the way if state reforms fail to produce savings promised by lawmakers. In mid-December, KPTV reported that Legacy Health Systems plans to cut as many as […]

Oregon’s Unemployment Rate Lowest in Three Years by Nick Beleiciks Oregon Employment Department Oregon’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 9.1 percent in November, a drop of 0.4 percentage point from 9.5 percent in October. The latest figures indicate that Oregon’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has been on a generally declining […]

Most outrageous lawsuits of 2011 By FacesOfLawsuitAbuse.org FacesOfLawsuitAbuse.org has compiled some of the most egregious examples of frivolous and abusive litigation from around the country and asked you to tell us which ones were the most ridiculous. These suits range from the comical and absurd to the disturbing, but they […]

Video: 2011 Tech Disasters In 2011, the corporate world saw some of the biggest and best tech companies make giant mistakes. CNN helps review which mistakes were made and how they handled it.

CLU Center for Economic Research & Forecasting Oregon Economics California has now had three consecutive months of job gains, and the State’s unemployment rate has been declining, albeit slowly. That’s an improvement, but it’s not time to break out the bubbly. For one thing, those job gains have been pretty […]

What if you gave away health care and no one showed up? by Eric Fruits EconInternationalOregon’s governor has a plan to “transform” the delivery of health care in the state. At first blush, it seems that the state will jettison its experiment with the Oregon Health Plan that made headlines […]

2011 has been the year of Bill Gates bashing — To his credit, Bill has handled it all in stride By Oregon Small Business Association From government criticisms to former co-workers, 2011 was a year full of unusually sharp and personal criticism of Bill Gates. First of all, Governing Magazine […]