Crumbling economies employ relatively more public workers


Where the business environment is suffering, public jobs represent what’s available for workers.

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Where the business environment is suffering, public jobs represent what’s available for workers.

Employment hasn’t grown in Coos, Lake, Harney, Grant or Wheeler counties since the 1970s.

It hasn’t grown in Benton, Curry, Douglas, Klamath, Gilliam, Jefferson, Crook, Baker or Malheur counties since the Clinton administration.

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