Oregon County-By-County Breakdown Shows the Harm of Not Extending Unemployment Insurance
If Congress fails to extend the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program more than 20,000 people in Oregon will lose their insurance coverage immediately on Dec. 28, according to the Oregon Employment Department. An additional 29,000 people in Oregon will lose their coverage in the first six months of 2014 if Republicans continue to block an extension of the program, according to Department of Labor estimates.
Federal unemployment insurance took effect in 2008 and has been reauthorized several times since as Americans continue to recover from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Despite the real progress the economy has made since its near collapse in 2008, there are still 1.3 million fewer jobs than there were before the recession began and long-term unemployment as a percentage of the unemployed is 37 percent, near historic highs.
Failure to extend federal unemployment insurance would also hurt job growth throughout the nation, costing the economy 240,000 jobs, according to the White House Council of Economic Advisers. The CEA estimates that in Oregon alone, failing to extend the program will cost 3,829 jobs.
COUNTY | # of People Losing Coverage Dec. 28 |
BAKER COUNTY | 64 |
BENTON COUNTY | 204 |
CLACKAMAS COUNTY | 1,705 |
CLATSOP COUNTY | 146 |
COLUMBIA COUNTY | 284 |
COOS COUNTY | 369 |
CROOK COUNTY | 147 |
CURRY COUNTY | 98 |
DESCHUTES COUNTY | 863 |
DOUGLAS COUNTY | 569 |
GILLIAM COUNTY | 6 |
GRANT COUNTY | 35 |
HARNEY COUNTY | 40 |
HOOD RIVER COUNTY | 83 |
JACKSON COUNTY | 1,080 |
JEFFERSON COUNTY | 65 |
JOSEPHINE COUNTY | 490 |
KLAMATH COUNTY | 390 |
LAKE COUNTY | 36 |
LANE COUNTY | 1,604 |
LINCOLN COUNTY | 178 |
LINN COUNTY | 659 |
MALHEUR COUNTY | 69 |
MARION COUNTY | 1,490 |
MORROW COUNTY | 29 |
MULTNOMAH COUNTY | 3,637 |
OUT OF STATE(WA, ID, & CA) | 826 |
POLK COUNTY | 318 |
SHERMAN COUNTY | 5 |
TILLAMOOK COUNTY | 114 |
UMATILLA COUNTY | 363 |
UNION COUNTY | 93 |
WALLOWA COUNTY | 25 |
WASCO COUNTY | 121 |
WASHINGTON COUNTY | 2,358 |
WHEELER COUNTY | 1 |
YAMHILL COUNTY | 482 |
OUT OF STATE (other states) | 1,021 |
Total | 20,067 |