Recent Trends Fall brings continued seasonal employment opportunities to Region 6 in such outdoor activities as agriculture, construction, and logging and additional employment opportunities from holiday hiring. However, tourism related to outdoor recreation at the coast and in the Cascade Mountains declines, and along with it, employment opportunities in such associated industries as hotels and restaurants. Unemployment often reaches its lowest level of the year in the fall as outdoor activities combine with holiday hiring to provide Published Oct-1-2009 ...more
