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Although the area has continued to lose jobs along with the rest of the state and country as a whole, there are still many places to look for jobs in Portland (Click here).

Portland has a population of about 575,930, making it the 29th most populous state in the country. However, about 2 million people live in the Portland metropolitan area, the third most populous in the nation. Portland is the most populous city in Oregon and the third most populous city in the Pacific Northwest.

During August, Oregon saw its unemployment rate increase from 11.8 percent to 12.2 percent, which is higher than the national unemployment rate of 9.7 percent. This was a change in trend, as Oregon had seen a continually decreasing unemployment rate from May through July.

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