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Non-logging forestry work, like planting trees or fuels reduction, is big business in Oregon. But if you’re picturing those doing this work as classic lumberjacks — plaid shirts, big beards, white guys — think again. Foreign guest workers make up much of this labor. And Jackson County is a national center for the industry.
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Threats of tariffs on major trading partners point to a chaotic global market for the foreseeable future.
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Ground Floor host Cynthia Scherr interviews Michael Sorenson
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Since the 1970s, billions of dollars in federal contracts have gone to forestry work like replanting trees or fuels reduction. Oregon has long been a center for businesses getting those contracts. But that industry looked a lot different 50 years ago.
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Thousands of nurses at Oregon’s Providence hospitals are heading into their second week of a walk-out. Negotiations over a new contract are going slowly and Providence says it's "prepared for a lengthy strike."
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One of the world’s largest commercial truck manufacturers is refusing to sell its diesel big rigs in Oregon, even though its North America headquarters is in Portland.
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Oregon’s Providence hospitals and nearly 5,000 of its workers have yet to agree on terms to bump wages and address staffing shortages.
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Robert Hammer of Homeland Security Investigations talks to JPR's Roman Battaglia about the agency's work to bust human trafficking in illegal cannabis operations in Oregon and across the Pacific Northwest.
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Rates that new employers will pay for unemployment insurance in the coming year will be 2.4% on up to $54,300 in wages per employee.
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A deadline for a new federal requirement affecting small businesses is coming up, but litigation and education efforts have caused confusion, especially for owners in Spanish-speaking communities.
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The proposed $24.6 billion merger between supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons floundered on Tuesday after judges overseeing two separate cases both halted the merger
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A former worker has sued several Rogue Valley forestry companies, claiming they didn’t provide adequate training or medical care.
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Benjamin Lorr explored the food supply chain in his book The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket.
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Oregon Youth Employee Safety is conducting an open contest for high school students to compete for cash prizes.