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Updated · ARLnow · Jun 8

Arlington Unemployment Falls to 2.9% in April as Employment Stays Below 150,000 for 8th Month

Updated

Updated · ARLnow · Jun 8

Arlington Unemployment Falls to 2.9% in April as Employment Stays Below 150,000 for 8th Month

2 articles · Updated · ARLnow · Jun 8

4,424 Arlington residents were counted as unemployed in April, pushing the jobless rate down to 2.9%—the first sub-3% reading since last June and the lowest jobless count in a year.
146,680 county residents were employed, down from 150,916 a year earlier, leaving Arlington with an unchanged unemployment rate despite fewer people working and an eighth straight month below 150,000 employed.
Northern Virginia showed the same strain: the regional unemployment rate rose to 3.8% from 2.7% a year earlier, with about 54,700 people unemployed in a 1.67 million civilian workforce.
97,100 jobs were lost year over year in the D.C. metro area, the biggest decline among U.S. metro regions, as analysts said the weakness predates federal cutbacks and reflects longer-running post-Covid population and labor-force losses.

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The D.C. area has 66,000 job openings yet leads the nation in job losses. Where have the workers gone?

With immigration slowing and jobs cut, is the D.C. region's decades-long economic boom finally coming to an end?

As federal jobs vanish to 1990s levels, can Northern Virginia's economy survive without its main growth driver?

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