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OR Added 6900 Jobs Last Month

(Salem, OR)  --  Oregon added 69-hundred jobs in May and the state's unemployment rate was unchanged at five-point-nine-percent.  Most of the new jobs were in Private Education and Professional and Business Services.  Hiring in the restaurant and hotel sector was flat in May.  The Leisure and Hospitality industry is about 46-thousand jobs behind where it was prior to the pandemic.
 

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