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Workspan Daily
05/23/2025
Last month, Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries commissioner Christina Stephenson announced the following 35-cent increases throughout the state:
;The Portland metro area’s minimum wage will increase from $15.95 to
$16.30 per hour for counties within the urban growth area.;
;The “standard minimum wage” will increase from $14.70 to
$15.05 per hour for most counties outside the Portland area.;
;The minimum wage for the smallest, non-urban counties will increase from $13.70 to
$14.05 per hour.;
Judge Strikes Down Workplace Protections for Transgender Employees
As reported by the
Associated Press , a Texas federal judge has struck down guidance from the U.S.
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Workspan Daily
05/16/2025
This result stemmed from a 0.2% increase in average hourly earnings combined with a 0.2% increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U).
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Workspan Magazine
08/15/2022
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), which measures price increases over the past year, reached 7.9% in February 2022 .
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Workspan Daily
03/01/2024
But the doctors said the move to increase spots at medical schools would not address fundamental problems such as difficult working conditions, a lack of specialists in fields seen as lower paying and a concentration of doctors in urban areas.
Workspan Daily
01/24/2025
In urban areas, there are 20.1 physicians per 10,000 residents.
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Workspan Daily
01/26/2024
At three agencies — the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Small Business Administration and the Social Security Administration — office utilization early last year was below 10%.
Workspan Daily
03/11/2022
In addition, Macy’s is providing an enterprise-wide, fully funded education benefit program for all of its colleagues; and is focusing corporate grant funding toward organizations “on the frontlines of advancing human rights, racial justice, workforce development and economic opportunity,” such as the Human Rights Campaign, National Urban League and the Asian American Business Development Center
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Workspan Magazine
08/06/2025
The jobless rate has remained higher than 5%, and unemployment among urban youth age 15 to 29 years rose to 17.9% in May from 17.2% in April, and in rural areas, youth unemployment climbed to 13.7% from 12.3% in the same period, Reuters reported.
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Workspan Daily
04/26/2022
“Further, workers affected by the higher cost of living were mainly in major urban centers.
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Workspan Daily
05/17/2022
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), which measures price increases over the past year, reached 7.9% in February 2022 .
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