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Archive Home > 2007 > December > 11 > Industry void hurts local wages

Industry void hurts local wages

Inflation-adjusted wages were higher in 1976 than today

By Anna Sowa / The Bulletin
December 11, 2007

When retired attorney and Bend commercial property owner Bob Dempster moved to Bend from San Jose in 1985, he says downtown was dead by sundown each night and many storefronts were empty.

“Bend was in the economic doldrums,” Dempster remembers. “The mills were....

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