northern virginia job growth: Jobs = People = Houses -- Sounds Like a Winning Formula for D.C. Region
- 06/05/10 02:51 AM
While national employment numbers that were released yesterday were disappointing and battered the stock market, things are different here in the D.C. area. According to data released this past week, unemployment in the Washington area dropped substantially in April to an unemployment rate of 5.9% compared with 6.6% in March.
According to Stephen Fuller, director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University, "the losses are shrinking, and we're getting more gains." The Washington Post reported that while the federal government and Washington area health and education sectors continued hiring throughout the recession, in April 2010, retail and … (5 comments)
Granted, there's a lot of them that shouldn't be used in polite conversation, let alone be written on a real estate blog. Pick a letter of the alphabet and there's almost certain to be an offensive word that starts with that letter.
Okay... maybe not Y or Z, but you get the point.
Here's one four letter word that should get your blood pumping: JOBS
According to an index by CareerCast.com and JobSerf, D.C. is currently the best city to find a job because it has the most available job … (5 comments)
northern virginia job growth: Are We Going to See Some Mass Migrations?
- 02/16/09 09:48 PM
California is dead broke. Kansas won't send out tax refunds. New York's got a big budget shortfall. You'd be hard-pressed to find a single state with a huge surplus these days... They say people vote with their feet. Are we going to see some mass migrations across the United States? Who will be the winners? Which states will be the losers? What are your thoughts? Well before people move, I believe they vote with their eyeballs. I write a blog about Northern Virginia and D.C. real estate. Tracking my reader statistics, besides the local area of Virginia, D.C., and Maryland, I … (16 comments)
While national employment numbers that were released yesterday were disappointing and battered the stock market, things are different here in the D.C. area. According to data released this past week, unemployment in the Washington area dropped substantially in April to an unemployment rate of 5.9% compared with 6.6% in March.
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