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The unemployment rate in the Clark County-Portland metropolitan area moved sharply higher in December to 8.6 percent, up from 7.4 percent in November and 5.1 percent in December 2007.
Construction, manufacturing and the professional-business service sector all shed jobs in the past 12 months, said the Oregon Employment Department, which released the report Monday.See the full content of this document
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Metro Area Jobless Rate Spikes Again
Those job cuts plus population growth have contributed to a total of 96,700 metropolitan ar...
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