Recent Trends Recent trends in Southeast Oregon have steadied somewhat following a very harsh recession.
In Grant County, the unemployment rate climbed to an average of 13.4 percent in 2009, the highest since 1998. The rate subsided a bit through the first five months of 2010 but remained squarely in double-digit territory. Nonfarm employment declined in Grant County for the fifth consecutive year in 2009, the longest ongoing downtrend anywhere in Oregon. By early 2010, most industries in Grant County had stopped shrinking, Published Jul-1-2010 ...more
