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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 17 > Oregon jobless rate jumps to double digits at 10.8%

Oregon jobless rate jumps to double digits at 10.8%

By Brad Cain / The Bulletin
March 17, 2009

SALEM — Oregon’s unemployment rate shot up by a full percentage point to 10.8 percent last month, the highest rate since July 1983 and well ahead of the national rate of 8.1 percent.

The February numbers released Monday showed the state losing another 21,700 jobs as....

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