Kate Davidson
Reporter | OPBKate Davidson is OPB鈥檚 business and economics reporter.
Kate has deep experience reporting and producing for public media. Before moving to Oregon, she was a regular contributor to "Marketplace", a reporter at Michigan Radio focused on economic change in the industrial Midwest and a producer at NPR.
She has master鈥檚 degrees from the University of California-Berkeley and Columbia University, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism. She won a national Edward R. Murrow award for her NPR documentary, "Saints and Indians", which told the stories of Navajo children sent to live with white Mormon foster families across the West.
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Multiple federal programs are sunsetting Sept. 4, cutting benefits to tens of thousands in Oregon. -
Oregon's unemployment rate parked at 6.0% in April. Long-term unemployment rose to its highest level in years. -
Most movie theaters in the state can now reopen at limited capacity. But some cinema owners aren鈥檛 ready yet.
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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced 10 counties had moved out of the "extreme risk" category for COVID-19. That means some indoor dining can resume in those places, gyms can serve more people and long-term care facilities can allow in-person visits. -
The agency was sued over lengthy delays paying unemployment benefits during the pandemic. Now, it has reached a settlement agreement with the Oregon Law Center. -
Restaurants laid off thousands of people. Months of overall job gains came to a stop as the state鈥檚 unemployment rate grew to 6.4% in December -
As Congress negotiates, Oregonians prepare for a gap in payment 鈥� or worse. -
About 70,000 Oregonians are expected to lose unemployment benefits this month. Meanwhile, COVID-19 has hit the agency鈥檚 largest claims center.
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Some of the first workers to lose jobs in the pandemic are losing them again in the 鈥渇reeze.鈥� As new business restrictions kicked in statewide this week, some workers and business owners experienced a gut-punching d茅j脿 vu. -
The move is meant to bolster the trust fund used to pay unemployment benefits.
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Court documents suggest far more people are in a 鈥榯ype of adjudication鈥� than was previously acknowledged. -
The Almeda Fire burned 18 mobile home parks in Jackson County. But some homes survived. Now, residents are moving back in.
