Food rules in Portland. So says a new Portland State University study that reveals the local food economy, which provides Portland its fastest growing industry and nearly 40,000 jobs, accounts for more than 10 percent of all jobs in the city. The new report, created for Portland's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, shows that 77 percent of those are food service jobs in specialty shops, grocery stores and restaurants. That also happens to be the worst-paying sector of the food economy, reports…
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