{"id":14511,"date":"2025-07-02T10:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14511"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:54:53","slug":"portland-metro-steadily-loosing-thousands-of-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14511","title":{"rendered":"Portland Metro steadily loosing thousands of jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In another sign of Portland&#8217;s declining situation, the metro area lost nearly 7,500 jobs in May 2025 and employment is down about 14,000 in the past year according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qualityinfo.org\/documents\/d\/guest\/labor-force-and-unemployment-by-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new report<\/a>\u00a0from the Oregon Employment Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Statewide, the unemployment rate was 4.8% in May 2025 &#8211; up from 4.1% in May 2024. The U.S. rate was 4.2% in both months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/money\/business\/portland-metro-job-loss\/283-1c5c2ad2-9b3a-461b-9acc-08eb00b1e45e\">https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/money\/business\/portland-metro-job-loss\/283-1c5c2ad2-9b3a-461b-9acc-08eb00b1e45e<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qualityinfo.org\/documents\/d\/guest\/labor-force-and-unemployment-by-area\">https:\/\/qualityinfo.org\/documents\/d\/guest\/labor-force-and-unemployment-by-area<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another sign of Portland&#8217;s declining situation, the metro area lost nearly 7,500 jobs in May 2025 and employment is down about 14,000 in the past year according to a\u00a0new report\u00a0from the Oregon Employment Department. Statewide, the unemployment rate was 4.8% in May 2025 &#8211; up from 4.1% in May 2024. The U.S. rate was 4.2% in both months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14511","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-3M3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511","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=14511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14512,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions\/14512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}