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How Bleak is DC's Unemployment Crisis?

How Bleak is DC's Unemployment Crisis?

City Cast DC

October 6, 202529m 12s

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Show Notes

It’s the question everyone’s been asking since DOGE first showed up: How screwed is DC? A new program at the Brookings Institution called DMV Monitor pulls together a ton of data to help answer the question. And their most recent report is kind of a jaw-dropper. The region’s unemployment has shot up nine times faster than the rest of the country, with more to come. Brookings Fellow Tracy Hadden Loh is here to break it all down.

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Wise

Folger Shakespeare Library

Nace Law Group

The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

Public Welfare Foundation

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