{"id":16617,"date":"2026-07-24T15:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16617"},"modified":"2026-06-20T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:43:07","slug":"oregon-in-bottom-half-of-growth-since-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16617","title":{"rendered":"Oregon in bottom half of growth since 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2020, Oregon has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qualityinfo.org\/-\/oregon-s-gross-domestic-product-a-measure-of-the-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ranked in the bottom half<\/a>\u00a0of U.S. states for real GDP growth. While companies aren&#8217;t fleeing en masse, some are building new facilities and hiring additional workers elsewhere, citing higher costs, longer permitting timelines and a complicated path to growth in Oregon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly a quarter of 400 Oregon businesses surveyed in a 2025\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/biz\/Publications\/Biz_Recruitment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Oregon study<\/a>\u00a0said they had been contacted by out-of-state recruiters since 2021. Dutch Bros, the Grants Pass\u2013founded coffee chain now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/hospitality\/dutch-bros-coffee-4ace4f7b?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqf0_bqDySFYJb9T4Vn81rJ6GtJfoMeyO2DNXjmLIHvR85sXBxJ0QSW0abwRvUA%3D&amp;gaa_ts=69a9fa1f&amp;gaa_sig=H_pWbJ8mZPodJrDi2cR3aibPjrzoe0fcREHDyTVIIUMDv6m6M6yS76OnZugddLMnmZtFS6OiqD9lHfcrD3o73A%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">valued in the billions<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/phoenix\/2024\/01\/18\/dutch-bros-moving-jobs-phoenix-area\">shifted 40% of its corporate staff to Phoenix<\/a>\u00a0last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/portland\/2026\/03\/09\/oregon-businesses-expand-out-of-state-growth-incentives\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/portland\/2026\/03\/09\/oregon-businesses-expand-out-of-state-growth-incentives\">Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2020, Oregon has\u00a0ranked in the bottom half\u00a0of U.S. states for real GDP growth. While companies aren&#8217;t fleeing en masse, some are building new facilities and hiring additional workers elsewhere, citing higher costs, longer permitting timelines and a complicated path to growth in Oregon Nearly a quarter of 400 Oregon businesses surveyed in a 2025\u00a0University of Oregon study\u00a0said they had been contacted by out-of-state recruiters since 2021. Dutch Bros, the Grants Pass\u2013founded coffee chain now\u00a0valued in the billions,\u00a0shifted 40% of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16617\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4k1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16617","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=16617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16619,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16617\/revisions\/16619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}