The Washington metropolitan area continues to see lower jobless rates as the pandemic (hopefully) makes its exit, but still has significant ground to make up before returning to the strong economy of the pre-COVID period.
A total of 3,325,898 metro-area...
New data suggest Virginia has recovered some of the jobs lost in the initial COVID pandemonium, but still has somewhere between 40,000 up to as many as 220,000 jobs to reclaim – depending on how you parse the figures...
A year into the COVID crisis, the Washington region has made strides in recouping its job losses but overall employment remains down nearly 75,000 jobs from the onset of the pandemic.
With 3.33 million in the civilian workforce and about...
Virginia has 182,000 reasons to want to get back to a pre-COVID environment.
That’s the number of jobs that the Virginia Employment Commission estimates were missing from the local Old Dominion’s economy in March compared to a year before, the...
Every corner of Virginia still has some catching up to do when it comes to post-COVID employment revival, but some areas are faring better than others, according to new state data.
Across the commonwealth, there were approximately 194,000 fewer non-farm...
Fairfax County’s jobless rate fell nearly a half-percent from December to January, part of an ongoing trend toward improving, albeit slowly improving, economic recovery.
With 576,611 county residents employed in the civilian workforce and 31,051 looking for jobs, Fairfax’s unemployment...
The underlying data don’t tell quite so rosy a tale, but Arlington’s jobless rate fell nearly a half-percent from December to January, part of an ongoing trend toward improving, albeit slowly improving, economic recovery.
With 140,629 county residents employed in...
The Washington region’s jobless rate started 2021 at twice the level it opened 2020, but continues to trend in a positive direction after the worst of the pandemic.
With 3,303,526 people employed in the civilian workforce and 197,711 looking for...
