By Oregon Employment Department, This morning the Employment Department released the September unemployment rate and jobs numbers for Oregon. After averaging monthly gains of 10,200 jobs from January through August, nonfarm payrolls lost 200 jobs in September. The jobs recovery looks quite different across different areas of the economy. About […]

By Taxpayers Foundation of Oregon A real estate company has donated a vacant lot in North Portland next to the Red House on Mississippi, site of protests after the black and indigenous owners lost homeowners lost their property to foreclosure.  That eventually created last December a riot where anarchists pushed […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office Economic Analysis Right now consumer spending is strong, COVID is keeping some workers home sick, and factories and warehouses are operating at or near capacity. These factors result in struggling supply chains, bare shelves and rising prices. Firms are indicating that these issues are likely […]

By US Senator Ron Wyden Release, U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio (OR-04), along with Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and Representatives Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) today requested answers on alleged mistreatment of Oregon National Guard (ORNG) servicemembers deployed to assist with the state’s COVID […]

By National Federation of Independent Business The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) sent a letter to congressional leaders opposing the Biden Administration’s proposal to require annual reporting to the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) of gross inflows and outflows from all businesses to pay for spending provisions of the Build […]

By Dr. Eric Fruits Cascade Policy Institute Apparently, “COVID time” is a real thing. A week feels like a month, and last month might have been last year. Perhaps that’s why 2017 seems like it might have been in the last century. That was the year the Oregon legislature passed […]

By Oregon Small Business Association, Oregon settled a second lawsuit filed against the state’s race-based pandemic aid that set aside $62 million in the Oregon Cares Fund solely for black Oregonians. Maria Garcia, owner of Revolución Coffee House, sued last year, contending that the state’s allocation of money only to […]

By Heather J. Van Meter Bullard Law, In the Jefferson County, Oregon case of Oregon Fraternal Order of Police v. Governor Kate Brown and State of Oregon, Case No. 21CV35125, thirty-three state police officers and two associations representing police and firefighters challenged the Governor’s Executive Order 21-29, requiring most executive […]

By US Congressman Peter DeFazio, Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR-4) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1), today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will purchase $16.5 million of Pacific seafood through its commodities purchasing program, with over 80 percent of the […]

By NFIB, NFIB President Brad Close wrote a new op-ed in USA Today explaining why the latest tax plan from lawmakers would be detrimental to small businesses. Close notes that small businesses aren’t looking at one or two tax hikes under the proposed plan – they’re looking at a slew […]