63% of new jobs are Gov’t or health care

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

The latest economic data shows that unemployment is rising.

Yet, there are new jobs created in the last quarter and 63% of them were either government jobs or health care.

How sustainable is it that private sector jobs decline while government jobs increase?

These two sectors have been dominating the new jobs for much of the past few years.

Here is a 2024 March job breakdown.

 

Here is how few Oregon government jobs that were lost during the first part of the Covid era.

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