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        <idAbs>Oregon is part of the workforce development system that is funded by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) which authorizes more than 550 local business-led workforce development boards that serve all fifty states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Territories to oversee workforce development services through a network of approximately 3,000 American Job Centers (also called One-Stop Career Centers).&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Oregon has nine Local Workforce Areas to support locally-driven decisions and programs. This layer displays the nine local workforce areas. The local workforce areas were constructed using the &lt;a href='https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=14c5450526a8430298b2fa74da12c2f4' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'&gt;USA Census Counties layer&lt;/a&gt;. The counties were assigned to local workforce areas based on the map on the &lt;a href='https://www.oregon.gov/workforceboard/about/Pages/Local-Workforce-Development-Boards.aspx' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'&gt;Local Workforce Development Boards webpage&lt;/a&gt;, this data was pulled on 11/15/2022.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For additional information please refer to the &lt;a href='https://www.oregon.gov/workforceboard/Pages/Home.aspx' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'&gt;Workforce &amp;amp; Talent Development Board website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</idAbs>
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variety of sources. The digital data and their documentation have been reviewed
for accuracy and completeness; however, the Oregon Legislative Policy and
Research Office and its representatives make no warranty or representation,
either expressed or implied, with respect to the digital data and their
documentation, their quality, performance, merchantability, or fitness for a
particular purpose. Digital data are distributed on an “AS IS” basis and the
user assumes all risk as to their quality, the results obtained from their use,
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