(Salem, OR)  --  Oregon's unemployment rate has reached the highest level since September 2021.  In January, the unemployment rate was four-point-four percent.  The state added 24-hundred jobs.  The largest gains were in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and retail trade.  Manufacturing lost 22-hundred jobs.  Health care lost 13-hundred jobs, but that was mainly due to the Providence nurses strike.  Oregon's private sector added over 12-thousand jobs between January 2024 and January 2025.