More that water separates the two states!
Washington state's seasonally adjusted jobless rate fell to 4.6 percent last month, among the lowest in the country, from 4.9 percent in July.
Whereas, Oregon's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 5.4 percent in August from 5.5 percent in July.
Have any doubts simply Google up the facts for yourself.
But then, the number of those working in Oregon's Illegal Alien Sub-Culture economy remains a mystery and Google can't help us there.
posted by Localfella at 8:44 PM
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Undocumented workers (I would like to keep my job) no matter which border they come through, are filling a niche, generally at the bottom like any first generation legal immigrant would. Farmers need people to pick produce at a piecemeal rate, something illegal in most other industries. Even if the laws didn't prevent kids from doing that, why do seasonal stoop labor when you can work in food service and get a guaranteed steady rate. Even welfare prices the poor out of a lot of jobs. Because welfare is spread out over multiple programs that each penalize a buck for a buck, one dollar could cost you upto 5 dollars in benefits. The most boring laws need to be fixed to make the agricultural labor market competitive for citizens, but that doesn't make for good soundbites and the pork to get legislators to vote for such a thing would probably be painful.
If you want to look at something more interesting with regards to unemployment, look at the border counties between Oregon/Washington and Idaho. It didn't make any sense, until I noticed that Oregon/Washington had more generous benefits.
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