{"id":11831,"date":"2024-11-02T10:21:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11831"},"modified":"2024-09-21T18:17:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T01:17:22","slug":"portland-has-most-job-losses-in-the-top-50-metro-areas-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11831","title":{"rendered":"Portland has most job losses in the top 50 metro areas in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Continued below average recovery in Portland and Oregon and declining population has lead to Portland having the most job losses in the top 50 metro areas of the country. Unemployment rates are still officially low at 3.9% because they are at the same time experiencing a population decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portland&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/05\/03\/exclusive-where-the-living-wage-jobs-are-and-arent\">true unemployment rate<\/a>\u00a0last year was 20%, compared with its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/eag\/eag.or_portland_msa.htm#eag_or_portland_msa1.f.3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">official rate<\/a>\u00a0of nearly 3.9%, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lisep.org\/local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a study<\/a>\u00a0from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/portland\/2024\/05\/09\/true-unemployment-rate-layoffs-economy\">https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/portland\/2024\/05\/09\/true-unemployment-rate-layoffs-economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continued below average recovery in Portland and Oregon and declining population has lead to Portland having the most job losses in the top 50 metro areas of the country. Unemployment rates are still officially low at 3.9% because they are at the same time experiencing a population decline. Portland&#8217;s\u00a0true unemployment rate\u00a0last year was 20%, compared with its\u00a0official rate\u00a0of nearly 3.9%, according to\u00a0a study\u00a0from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP). https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/portland\/2024\/05\/09\/true-unemployment-rate-layoffs-economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-34P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12218,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831\/revisions\/12218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}