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Oregon Is the Picture of Economic Health
The Beaver State punches above its weight in the metrics that make up Bloomberg's Economic Evaluation of States.
Wildlife refuge.
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The biggest recent news from Oregon has nothing to do with the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge near the high-desert town of Burns. It's about the state's economic health, the most improved in the U.S. last year.
The 27th-largest state, with almost 4 million people, had the best-performing economy in the nation measured by employment, home prices, personal income, tax revenues, mortgage delinquency and the publicly traded equity of its companies, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.