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OR Adds 10K Jobs

(Salem, OR) -- Oregon added ten-thousand jobs in November. Leisure and hospitality added the most with 41-hundred jobs. Construction, professional and business services, and retail trade also added jobs. Health care lost 11-hundred jobs. Construction and wholesale trade have set records for their highest employment levels ever. Oregon's unemployment rate dropped to four-point-two percent in November, down from four-point-four percent in October. The U.S. unemployment rate was also four-point-two percent.

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