{"id":342020,"date":"2025-12-11T00:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/342020\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T00:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:22:22","slug":"oregon-jobless-rate-hits-another-post-pandemic-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/342020\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon jobless rate hits another post-pandemic high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DXBEU65BPVDXLIFO3S6Q6ZHPMM\">Oregon\u2019s unemployment rate climbed to 5.2% in September, according to newly released data, but the state added jobs thanks to big gains in the health care sector.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OLOSPQX7TBDLTKFMT7Y6IWQKKQ\">The jobs numbers were delayed for several weeks by the prolonged shutdown of the federal government. The data released Wednesday by the Oregon Employment Department is the first look at the state\u2019s labor market in months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KXLBSCYBRJBRVOL7263CLBDWQE\">The numbers are a mixed bag. They show unemployment climbed by 0.2 percentage points amid a historic surge in layoffs. Oregon employers have reported nearly 9,000 layoffs this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GUKEEWQZIJFU7GCGDOXF2SHSQI\">Oregon\u2019s jobless rate is at its highest point since the period immediately after the pandemic recession and well above the national rate, 4.4%. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NUWISB2QOBAM3MIJGH33JRCJ5Q\">The hospitality, manufacturing and financial sectors all lost jobs compared to August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VTUGSB7D2ZAHPMPJVGARMGGWRY\">Overall, though, Oregon gained 3,300 jobs in September. That includes 1,300 new jobs in the health care sector, which has been the state\u2019s strongest industry over the past year. It grew by 3.7% compared to September 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EUYBCGUV7ZAVXK5FNCO7LRTL3Q\">Oregon is still waiting on updated federal data and won\u2019t have jobs data for October and November until early next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oregon\u2019s unemployment rate climbed to 5.2% in September, according to newly released data, but the state added jobs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-342020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342020","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=342020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}