Oregon's Unemployment Rate Increases
(Salem, OR) -- The Oregon Employment Department is getting caught up with unemployment numbers. The government shutdown delayed the September report. The unemployment rate increased from five percent in August to five-point-two percent in September. 33 hundred jobs were added in the state. Health care and social assistance continues to lead the way adding 13-hundred jobs, followed by construction and professional and business services. Financial activities lost 700 jobs.



