Towns outside of the main population centers still dealing with downturn.
Towns outside of the main population centers still dealing with downturn.
In Union County and some of its sparsely populated neighbors in eastern Oregon, the recovery has crawled. For every 10 jobs that Union County lost in the recession, which officially ended in 2010, it had only gained four of them back by 2014.
Most southern Oregon counties have fared even worse, recovering fewer than one in 10 jobs lost during the most recent downturn. And the problem isn’t purely cyclical, either.
Read more at OregonLive.com.
