Posted on 12/24/2023 9:59:16 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
In the two months after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the US in the spring of 2020, about 22 million US jobs disappeared. It took 29 months for the country as a whole to fully recover those jobs. But the recovery has been uneven. While certain places have welcomed many new residents and growing payrolls, other states and cities have struggled to restore their pre-pandemic economies.
The nation's capital is in the worst spot, lagging behind every state in the country in recovering those jobs lost during the first months of the pandemic.
As of October 2023, DC had only recovered 64% of the jobs it lost during March and April 2020, while 41 states have recovered all of their losses and some have seen employment surge in recent years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly estimates for state employment.
Hawaii, Rhode Island, Maryland, Vermont, Louisiana, New York, West Virginia, North Dakota, and Michigan also haven't recovered all of their jobs lost to the pandemic.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Held onto restrictions the longest and Biden still hasn’t ordered them back to the office. Think of all those service jobs dependent on government workers who now work from home most or all of the time.
I don’t believe this.
The D.C. area has been immune to about every economic issue, thanks to the unlimited budget it gets to spend. The place is an economic bubble.
If this is true, why is the retarded, Mr. Joe Pedeaux Demento still importing people without jobs or money. That’s some dumbass crap.
This article is talking about Washington, D.C. Now it’s a ghost town.
There’s a job opening in Democrat Senator Ben Cardin’s office isn’t there?
You're going to apply?
I don’t believe this for a minute, either. The last disaster we had with housing in 2008 caused by Democrats’ forcing loans to unqualified minorities and banks’ subsequent issuance of worthless credit derivatives stopped virtually everything in this country. Not so with DC. I was on a trip there then and looked around the skyline in DC adjacent VA and MD and all I could see were erected tower cranes put in to frantically try and meet the demand for new buildings for all the suckerfish companies springing up to feed off ‘government recovery.’
Using COVID to save thier sorry a##es
Pandemic job losses
Interesting way to describe government forced closures.
I completely believe this.
Federal buildings were reported to be at 31% occupancy. The parasitic federal workers have not been ordered back into the office so they are working remotely from anywhere but DC.
Shops and restaurants don’t have the overpaid federal workers there to buy their wares.
EC
DC just needs a million or so Illegal Aliens to fix their problems.
THEY HAVE NO SKILLS—DO NOT SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE-—CANNOT MAKE CHANGE WITH AMERICAN $$$-—DO NOT MEET NORMAL BUSINESS STANDARDS OF GROOMING, ETC.
I'm an old straight woman. I think they only want male homos.
Cry me a river. The juries of the Jan 6 entrapment victims brought this on themselves. (spit)
DC homeowners pay a premium for used needles and poop on their lawns.
It is a true third world city—with small enclaves of gated wealthy areas surrounded by grinding poverty.
The nation’s capital is in the worst spot, lagging behind every state in the country in recovering those jobs lost during the first months of the pandemic.
“all the suckerfish companies springing up to feed off ‘government recovery.’”
Yup—it is like the wild west. The thieves rob the banks because that is where the money is.
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