{"id":15763,"date":"2025-07-17T06:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/15763\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:59:11","slug":"oregon-unemployment-rate-continues-slow-steady-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/15763\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon unemployment rate continues slow, steady climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon\u2019s unemployment rate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qualityinfo.org\/press-release\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">went up one-tenth of a percentage point<\/a> in June, marking the sixth consecutive month of such growth.<\/p>\n<p>The state lost 4,300 jobs last month. The largest losses came in the manufacturing (-1,200 jobs), leisure and hospitality (-1,000 jobs), retail trade (-700 jobs), and professional and business services (-700 jobs) sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The public sector also shrank, losing 600 jobs. All losses came in the federal government subsector.<\/p>\n<p>The small, incremental increases in the unemployment rate so far this year are adding up, according to Oregon\u2019s employment economist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve seen it tick up a tenth of a percentage point each month so far this year. So that\u2019s little change from month-to-month, but the larger effect is that we\u2019ve seen the unemployment rate rise from 4.3% at the end of last year to 4.9% in June,&#8221; said Gail Krumenauer.<\/p>\n<p>Health care and social assistance remains a bright spot in Oregon\u2019s job market. It added another 900 jobs last month, and has grown by nearly 16,000 jobs in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Other sectors that added jobs in June include wholesale trade (+500 jobs), information (+500 jobs), and transportation, warehousing and utilities (+300 jobs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oregon\u2019s unemployment rate went up one-tenth of a percentage point in June, marking the sixth consecutive month of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-15763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}