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Climax employee Joe Hernandez assembles a portable machine tool part at the company’s Newberg headquarters last week. According to the Oregon Employment Department, 13 percent of Yamhill County’s labor force is Hispanic, which is higher than the statewide average of 9 percent, and that number is expected to continue growing.
Hispanics represented 13 percent of Yamhill County’s work force — a larger share than the 9 percent average statewide — in 2011, according to a recent report by the Oregon Employment Department, and those numbers are only expected to grow over time.
