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Why Rural Unemployment Rates Defy Gravity

Gary Halvorson/Oregon State Archives
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The unemployment rates for the nation and our states continue to look pretty good. 

Oregon and California are both right around four percent unemployment.  But not uniformly; Klamath and Lake Counties in Oregon, for example, tend to run about two points higher than the statewide average. 

Damon Runberg is a regional economist with the Oregon Employment Department.  He visits with a sense of what drives rural unemployment higher. 
 

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