341 counties in the United States were persistently in poverty, but none of them were in Oregon, according to a new report released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. A region is declared to be in ...

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In nonbinding elections, parts of eastern Oregon said they wanted to join Idaho. The conservative region has long felt ... at a time when some rural counties had few cases. The protests and ...

Economic data indicates that if the 10 Eastern Oregon counties in the region were a state, it would rank as the 48th poorest in the United States, with a median household income of $49,853.50 ...