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Opportunity Youth Report, 2018
Date posted:

April 11th, 2018

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A report released by the three Workforce Development Boards that serve the Portland-SW Washington region finds nearly 30,000 youth ages 16 to 24 are not in school or working (referred to as opportunity youth). Despite a strong regional economy, in which nearly 71,000 jobs were added between 2014 and 2016, the share and number of opportunity youth in the region remained stagnant since the last report in 2016.

Findings include:
The Self Sufficiency Standard for Oregon Counties, 2017

Date posted:

January 11th, 2018

Developed by Dr. Diana Pearce, Director of the Center for Women's Welfare at the University of Washington, the Self-Sufficiency Standard measures how much income a family of a certain composition in a given place in Oregon must earn to meet their basic needs, without public or private subsidies. The standard factors in the cost of six basic needs calibrated to the specific costs for a particular county in Oregon: child care, food, health, housing, transportation, and miscellaneous. // Read more

View Resources & Publications

Title	Date Published
Opportunity Youth Report, 2018	April 11th, 2018
Construction Labor Market Report, 2018	March 21st, 2018
The Self Sufficiency Standard for Oregon Counties, 2017	January 11th, 2018
Aligning Workforce & Housing Systems	November 10th, 2017