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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The agency faces a class action lawsuit over lengthy delays in delivering unemployment benefits -
The Oregon Employment Department began issuing extra payments authorized by President Trump -
Oregonians who have struggled to get unemployment benefits shared their experiences with lawmakers during a remote hearing Thursday. -
Oregon is applying for President Trump's weekly $300 boost to unemployment benefits. Also, Oregon lawmakers plan to hold three days of hearings next week on the state's problems delivering unemployment benefits -
The Oregon Employment Department says it has processed a backlog of 70,000 Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims. These people are still waiting. -
They process unemployment claims caused by the coronavirus. Some are worried about getting the same virus at work.
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The lawsuit seeks a court order compelling the Oregon Employment Department to decide unemployment claims within 4 weeks -
Almost 100,000 Oregonians have filed unemployment claims through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. Only 23,000 of them have been paid. -
The head of Oregon's Employment Department took media questions Friday for the first time in weeks. -
House lawmakers are recalling the head of Oregon's employment department to answer questions during a Saturday session -
In Oregon, the only way to apply for regular unemployment benefits online is in English. -
When lawmakers designed Oregon's new business tax, they weren't planning for a pandemic.
