{"id":307602,"date":"2025-10-16T08:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/307602\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:37:18","slug":"shutdown-blacks-out-oregon-employment-picture-columbia-community-connection-news-mid-columbia-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/307602\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutdown blacks out Oregon Employment Picture \u2014 Columbia Community Connection News Mid-Columbia Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Wage Trends show a loss of 3,800 jobs in Oregon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In the absence of monthly data, the Oregon Employment Department released its most recent Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) \u2014 a slower-moving but reliable measure that shows employment and wage trends through June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Health Care Up, Manufacturing Down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The QCEW data shows that Oregon\u2019s covered employment totaled 2,004,700 in the second quarter of 2025, down 3,800 jobs from the same quarter in 2024. The private sector lost 11,100 jobs during the last year, driven largely by a 3.9% decline in manufacturing, which shed 7,400 positions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In contrast, health care and social assistance added 14,100 jobs, a 4.7% increase that continues to buoy Oregon\u2019s service economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wage Trends show a loss of 3,800 jobs in Oregon In the absence of monthly data, the Oregon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":307603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,420,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-307602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115382940156714424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}