Legal Update: Be Aware- SSA “No-Match” Letters Are Back. By Dunn, Carney, Allen, Higgins & Tongue With the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (“IRCA”) a new era in employer/employee relations began that made unlawful the willful or knowing hiring of illegal immigrants. IRCA requires employers […]

BBB Warns : Osama bin Laden money scams abound following death news By Better Business Bureau Oregon In the days following the death of Osama bin Laden, Better Business Bureau is warning consumers to watch out for a slew of cyber-scams that have popped up. According to Kaspersky Labs, an […]

Dan Danner President & CEO, NFIB “This is one of the worst examples of unelected bureaucrats doing the bidding of special interest groups that I’ve ever seen,” said U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham. But Graham and millions of small-business owners may be in store for even more bureaucratic muscle-flexing by the […]

James S. Chanos, president and founder of Kynikos Associates and the man who forecasted Enron’s fall a decade ago is now making a prediction on a hard fall for China’s economy. CNBC does an interview which can be seen below. On the other side, Forbes did a counter case to […]

By Tim Duy, Oregon Economic Forum The University of Oregon Index of Economic Indicators™ rose 0.7 percent to 92.0 in March 2011, the fifth consecutive monthly gain. Of the seven indicators that comprise the UO Index, four – Oregon initial unemployment claims, Oregon employment services payrolls, Oregon residential building permits, […]

By Gail Krumenauer Oregon Employment Dept. Workforce Oregon ranks high among the states in union membership. In 2010, Oregon had a 16.2 percent union membership rate of employed workers. This figure ranked 10th highest among the 50 states and District of Columbia. Private-sector union membership (9.1%) ranked 12th highest nationwide, […]

By Jim Dale Stoel Rives, Oregon Law Firm World of Employment On the final day of the sixty-first Legislature, Idaho lawmakers passed a bill which provides varying levels of tax credits for private employers who hire at least one employee after April 15, 2011. Governor Otter signed the legislation amending […]

By Oregon Small Business Association, One of Oregon’s most important business leaders, Phil Knight of NIKE, recently spoke before a national audience on the Oprah Winfrey show and discussed his life, his business and his success.  Below are highlights of the interview: On the Nike logo KNIGHT: “Nike was the […]

By Bill Conerly, Conerly Consulting, Businomics Here’s some perspective: history, demand and supply. Brief history of gold price: Gold had sold for $35 an ounce, then shot up to $675 during the last bubble, peaking in January 1980. (I’m using monthly averages throughout this article.) That’s cool, buying at $25 […]

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