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Painting a False Picture. Oregon is Pretty Good At It.


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I keep hearing that Oregon has steady job growth and all the usual bull feathers about how everything’s fine in the economy. Well, let’s look at the facts. 

Oregon’s unemployment rate went UP last month to 8.5 percent…higher than the national average. We graduate about 40-thousand kids a year from a student population of half a million. That means you need about 3-thousand jobs a month for the young men and women added to the population because eventually all of them have to move out of mom and dad’s house and start life.  

Oregon added 1700 jobs last month which fills just half that need without chipping away at the 170-thousand unemployed. Oregon has one of the highest unemployment rates in America…one of the highest minimum wage rates…one of the highest income tax rates and a high capital gains rate.  

We have crazy land use rules and government regulation on steroids. Is it any wonder that the state’s real wage growth has been virtually nonexistent for decades and that the state has been losing major industry. 

Nike is here for Phil, Columbia is here for Gert and the jobs have been bleeding away for a long, long time.

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