Employment and Wage (ES-202)

Greater Portland Pulse recently updated the following indicators:

Unemployment Rate: How does the unemployment rate in the greater Portland region compare to the national unemployment rate?

Average Wage per Job: (now available by county!) What does the average job pay in the Portland MSA?

Per Capita Income: (now available by county!) How does the average wage per job in the Portland MSA compate to the US Metro average? Which county in the greater Portland region has the highest per capit income?

In Spring 2014, Mayor of Dallas Mike Rawlings gathered the Dallas community and created a Task Force to advise him on substantive, short-term plans to take action against poverty within the city. Dallas, which has the third-highest poverty rate for a city with a population of more than 1 million in the country, faces unique poverty challenges, which continue to disproportionately affect people of color.  From 2000 to 2012, Dallas’ poverty increased by 41%, while the population of the city itself overall grew only by 5%. Dr.