Posted on 06/21/2016 12:29:29 PM PDT by goodnesswins
On the backs of the consumer and the strengthening labor market, the U.S. economic expansion continues. Weakness and uncertainty remain in terms of the global economy, financial markets and the goods-producing industries. However, as the U.S. economy enters the seventh year of expansion, including the longest string on monthly job gains on record, the outlook remains positive. The ongoing job gains and wage growth are pulling workers back into the economy and measures of slack, or underutilization, show ongoing improvements.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonbusinessreport.com ...
100% employment for those who are working! Isn’t that awesome!
Too bad there is 100% unemployment on those who aren’t working.
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Your post was SARCASM right you need to add a litle /s
I worked at Intel for 25 years and spent 10 of them in Portland.
Some of my best friends were either thrown under the bus or took early retirement since they got tired of dealing with the crap.
It is sad to see one of America’s finest companies being destroyed by demands for diversity and political power struggles.
Nope, no sarcasm intended. In addition to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data, each individual state’s Bureau of Labor collects its own unemployment data.
From the same website:
Oregon’s economy has recovered since the recession, but younger workers lag behind.
If younger generations are our future, that future might not be so bright if current trends continue.
Oregon had the fourth-highest youth unemployment rate in 2015 at 22.2 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2015 Current Population Survey.
http://oregonbusinessreport.com/2016/06/solving-oregons-youth-job-crisis/
Must be inner city youts.
I live in Coos Bay, OR. Back in the ‘70’s there was full employment. There was also a store called The Rubber Duck. They sold waterbeds, and had a little headshop in the back room. Today, employment is in the toilet, but every corner store sells glass pipes and bongs. There’s a display case in one of them, containing blown glass bongs ranging in price from $4,000 to $6,200. Onward and upward....
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