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Labor Day Special: TOL's Rural Economy Tour
Over the last few months, Think Out Loud has traveled around Oregon to explore the broad question of what makes rural economies thrive. From the high mountains of eastern Oregon to the central Oregon coast, we met fascinating people in old and new industries — all trying to make the best living they can in relatively small and sometimes isolated communities. In this show, we'll bring you the highlights and some favorite moments, but you can hear the entire series — plus stories from OPB news on the same subject — here.
Do you live in rural Oregon? How do you make a living? Has that changed recently? What kind of support or infrastructure would help you, your family or your community thrive economically?
Our Rural Economy Series was part of The Rural Economy Project, which is a partnership between OPB and the Rural Development Initiative, Sustainable Northwest, and The Oregon Consortium & Oregon Workforce Alliance.
Web only extra: Diane Snyder on our Ranching show wrote a song about her experience losing the ranch that had been in her family for generations.
Tagged as: economy · labor · rural economy
Photo credit: Think Out Loud staff
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Oregon Travel Commission has developed a great FREE online customer service training program. It one of the best I've seen for training in good effective customer service awarness and delivery skills. HOWEVER.. the program did not allot funds for getting the word out to Oregonian businesses and citizens. It is funded via the special hotel tax to fund travel and tourism in Oregon (as is Travel Oregon activities, including their great website. The training program is called the "Q" Training http://www.oregonqcare.com
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Glad to hear that rural economy thrives to make their community self sufficient, they are not that contented of what they had but they are exhausting all the possibilities to uplift the way of their living through engaging in a small biusiness activity. I hope that the act of making themseleves sustainable will also be supported by the local government. We must be unitied in the goal of making every sector a financially stable that can surpass challeneges amidst of the bad economy. Support of national government will help to mobilize economic growth within the rural community.
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It is a universal fact that small and big companies are continue to thrive due to the hit of global economic collapse. Nice to hear even those rural economy are doing the same way too, they are also stuggling to keep the economy stable, it may be hard but they left with no choice that to keep the transaction going, otherwise if they wont beat the challenge it will be them who are going to suffer in the end. Even they are in the remote areas they are resourceful enough in finding ways to beat those uncertainties. Keep it up, I am looking forward that the local government will also support the business advocacy of those people in rural areas.
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Having done work in Eastern Oregon and the coast, I have seen the challenge of sustaining a trained, service consistient workforce, as these areas can be heavily influenced by extreem seasonal highs and lows of economic opportunity. There are little to no funds to develop and deliver ongoing career development for the local communities. Would distance learning/training be able to fill in this gap?
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