Portland Adult Entertainment: Stimulus spending adds nearly 10000 jobs in Oregon
by kingofportland… This is our big opportunity,” said Huckans, who works with Loftis at Oregon Health & Science University. The money will be used to hire support staff and buy lab mice and equipment for two years of intense study. “We are finally able to get going.”
The two brain scientists represent just a tiny slice of the hundreds of federal contracts, loans and grants that have gone to Oregon companies and projects as part of the massive federal effort to wrench the nation out of its deep economic dive.
Oregon’s share of the money is buying safer passage for salmon on the Columbia River, funding a Beaverton program that keeps children out of prostitution and helping start a new business in Sandy that makes moulds for testing concrete. It’s repaving hundreds of miles of roads, clearing brush from fire-prone forests and dredging shipping lanes in the state’s harbors.