April 19, 2020, 6:05am Business Free
The Washington state Employment Security Department can handle 600 callers at any given time. But between March 8 and April 11 — when the state’s economy was bulldozed by the novel coronavirus outbreak — the office received new unemployment claims requests from nearly 640,000 people. Read story
March 31, 2020, 5:38pm Business
It’s no surprise that employment in Clark County held steady in February. The data, released Tuesday, likely will be the starting point for measuring substantial employment drops in the coming months. Read story
March 29, 2020, 6:05am Business
The ongoing outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has already had a profound effect on Clark County’s job market, and the impact is likely to get worse in the coming weeks as the newest round of public containment measures make themselves felt. Read story
March 26, 2020, 7:18pm Business
The number of unemployment claims in Clark County last week spiked by 1,575 percent compared with the week before, signaling the first set of employment impacts from the COVID-19 outbreak. Read story
March 22, 2020, 6:05am Business Free
The coronavirus is dealing a death blow to the longest U.S. economic expansion on record, triggering layoffs and putting intense strain on the nation’s financial system. Read story
March 21, 2020, 6:05am Business Free
The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted Clark County businesses in nearly every industry, but amid the chaos, one of the county’s biggest industries appears to be chugging along with minimal impacts, at least so far: Construction. Read story
March 20, 2020, 5:46pm Business Free
State unemployment offices in Washington and Oregon have been instructed by the federal government to stop releasing daily claim totals before the U.S. Department of Labor can issue its regularly scheduled weekly report. Read story
March 19, 2020, 6:05am Business Free
The ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 and the coronavirus that causes it has led to a sudden and dramatic spike in layoffs as restaurants and other small businesses have shuttered. But one industry has seen the opposite trend: grocery stores. Read story
January 19, 2020, 6:05am Business
When Steve Valenta looks at the financials from his restaurant's first eight years, most of the numbers have gone up. Read story
January 14, 2020, 6:02am Business
One of the largest raw material distributors in the country could soon be setting up a branch in Vancouver. Read story
