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Oregon's Unemployment Rate Ties Record Low

(Salem, OR) -- Oregon's unemployment rate is back at a record low. The rate for July reached three-point-four percent statewide. This was the sixth consecutive monthly drop and down from a high of four-point-eight percent in January. The record was originally set in November of 2019. Sixty-eight-hundred jobs were added in July following a 57-hundred-job increase in June. The most jobs were added in health care and social assistance, government, professional and business services, and construction. Jobs were lost in financial activities, manufacturing, transportation, warehousing, and utilities. Over the last year, three industries have added nearly all of Oregon's new jobs -- they are health care and social assistance, leisure and hospitality, and government.

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