• Health Care Employment growing slowly in Salem despite need

    March 10, 2025

  • Willamette Workforce Partnership E-News – October 2024

    November 18, 2024

  • Unemployment low in Salem, but wage growth mixed.

    October 8, 2024

  • The Salem economy, like that of Oregon and the U.S., is doing well so far

    August 27, 2024

  • Hiring Challenges Remain for Law Enforcement in Salem Area

    July 10, 2024

  • Better data on gig workers needed to inform policy

    June 13, 2024

  • What Salem’s unemployment rate really means

    May 2, 2024

  • Diverse manufacturing has kept Salem economy strong

    April 3, 2024

  • Salem Ahead of Oregon in Pandemic Recovery

    February 29, 2024

  • What Oregon’s Declining Population Means for Workers

    February 1, 2024

  • A Closer Look at Food Inflation

    December 19, 2023

  • Gary Mueller Retiring

    December 12, 2023

  • WORKing Together Conference Highlights WWP Program!

    December 4, 2023

  • WWP Set to Distribute Funds  to Organizations

    November 17, 2023

  • Local government grows, but population grows much faster in Salem

    October 31, 2023

  • More Job Training and Public Policy Changes Needed to Raise Oregon Labor Force Participation

    October 6, 2023

  • Why people with criminal histories struggle to find jobs in Oregon

    September 13, 2023

  • Mid-Valley Behavioral Health Consortium

    August 23, 2023

  • The pandemic’s lingering effects on the Salem economy

    August 10, 2023

  • Why health care providers in Salem still struggle to hire

    July 10, 2023

  • 2022 State of the Workforce

    June 12, 2023

  • Salem is adding jobs, but unemployment is rising. Why?

    June 5, 2023

  • Workers with disabilities a ready pool for Salem employers

    March 30, 2023

  • Higher Wages and More Job Choices

    February 21, 2023

  • Making sense of Salem’s strange economic climate

    December 13, 2022

  • Employers will likely struggle to fill high-demand jobs in the Salem area

    November 8, 2022

  • Tracing the decline of child care options in Salem

    October 11, 2022

  • What’s happening on inflation, recession in Salem

    September 8, 2022

  • American women still doing the bulk of household work, latest Census finds

    August 9, 2022

  • Recapping Two Years of Economic Turmoil in Salem

    July 6, 2022