Wine Industry Buoys Oregon Employment

Wines & Vines (Sep 28 2012) Wine Business

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   Oregon unemployment rates increased this summer. After bottoming out at 8.4% unemployment in May, August ended at a seasonally adjusted rate of 8.9%—but the wine industry bears a bright light for the state’s job market.

   While state-wide unemployment in Oregon climbed to 11.6% in spring 2009 (from just 5% two years earlier), a report released last week by Annette Shelton-Tiderman of the Oregon Employment Department highlighted the contribution the state’s wine industry made to keeping people employed.

   “As Oregon businesses struggled during the Great Recession (2007-09) and the years to follow, the state’s ...

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