By Oregon Employment Department, March 2021 Employment and Unemployment in Oregon’s Counties In March 2021, 24 out of 36 of Oregon’s counties experienced over-the-month decreases in their unemployment rates. Clatsop and Union counties saw the largest over-the-month decrease, declining 0.9 percentage point each in March. Lincoln County had Oregon’s highest […]

State Representative Daniel Bonham, Republicans push comprehensive fixes to Oregon’s unemployment benefits system SALEM, Ore. – A Republican-sponsored bill that was approved by the House with unanimous support seeks to introduce a number of fixes to Oregon’s unemployment benefits system. Chief among them is allowing businesses to reset their unemployment […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Included in the American Rescue Plan Act were some significant changes to the child tax credit for 2021. While some policymakers are looking to make these changes permanent, at this point they are for just 2021 only. These changes include an increase […]

By Portland Business Alliance, Friday night, individuals declared that they planned to gather in our city and downtown to destroy it. They were successful. In the midst of collective efforts to help our region’s economy recovery from a multitude of crises, a small handful of people caused enormous damage to […]

By National Federation of Independent Business The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation’s leading small business advocacy organization, issued the following statement from NFIB Senior Manager of Federal Government Relations Jeff Brabant following the U.S. House of Representatives passage of H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act. “The small […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis The Oregon Employment Department released the March 2021 jobs report. Overall the new data shows what we are expecting is the beginning of a robust recovery. Last month Oregon saw more than 20,000 jobs added. Most of the gains were in Leisure […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Nike has sued MSCHF Product Studio Inc. of trademark infringement after the art collective modified black and red Nike Air Max 97 sneakers with a bronze pentagram charm and drop of human blood and sold them as Lil Nas X “Satan Shoes,” sparking a backlash […]

By Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association, The framework for mitigating Covid risk in Oregon across a variety of industries has changed once again with newly established statewide hospitalization metrics among other factors defining Oregon’s new ‘Extreme Risk’ category. As a result, all Oregon counties for the first time in many […]

By Oregon Business Industry, A broad coalition of business associations and chambers of commerce from around Oregon submitted a joint letter to Gov. Kate Brown and legislative leadership detailing recommendations for how to spend the nearly $6 billion that is coming to the state now that the American Rescue Plan […]

By NFIB, According to NFIB’s monthly jobs report, 42% (seasonally adjusted) of small business owners reported job openings they could not fill in the current period, a record reading. The March reading is 20 points higher than the 48-year historical average of 22%. “Where small businesses do have open positions, […]