DMV now leading the country in job losses, by a mile

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Anonymous wrote:The Bureau of Labor Statistics says we lost 103,900 jobs in the past year. Maybe this is something the mayoral candidates should address?

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2026/washington-dc-metropolitan-area-lost-103900-jobs-from-january-2025-to-january-2026.htm

How exactly is a mayor going to improve this? Be realistic

Is this a real question? How about by not being incredibly hostile to businesses? That would be a good place to start.

Mayors have such limited ability to deal with the macro issues that are impacting jobs. Being "less hostile" to business is going to have negligible impacts, if any.

Are you dumb or just insane?

Really don't think you know who the world works.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George says she'll raise taxes on businesses. Um....

Janeese has built her career on hating businesses so you probably shouldn't expect her to change her stripes now just because we, you know, really need them right now. Politicians will always put their own personal interests (and brands) ahead of the voters' interests.

our elected officials are incapable are doing anything even slightly difficult. all they can do is take our tax dollars and give it to their friends and families pretending to be "violence interrupters" and build bike lanes. anything beyond that is beyond them.

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George says she'll raise taxes on businesses. Um....

Janeese has built her career on hating businesses so you probably shouldn't expect her to change her stripes now just because we, you know, really need them right now. Politicians will always put their own personal interests (and brands) ahead of the voters' interests.

our elected officials are incapable are doing anything even slightly difficult. all they can do is take our tax dollars and give it to their friends and families pretending to be "violence interrupters" and build bike lanes. anything beyond that is beyond them.

Dude touch some grass

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Anonymous wrote:The Bureau of Labor Statistics says we lost 103,900 jobs in the past year. Maybe this is something the mayoral candidates should address?

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2026/washington-dc-metropolitan-area-lost-103900-jobs-from-january-2025-to-january-2026.htm

How exactly is a mayor going to improve this? Be realistic

Is this a real question? How about by not being incredibly hostile to businesses? That would be a good place to start.

Mayors have such limited ability to deal with the macro issues that are impacting jobs. Being "less hostile" to business is going to have negligible impacts, if any.

Are you dumb or just insane?

Really don't think you know who the world works.

DC leads the country in job losses. If this was happening in any other city, it would be a five alarm fire.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George says she'll raise taxes on businesses. Um....

Janeese has built her career on hating businesses so you probably shouldn't expect her to change her stripes now just because we, you know, really need them right now. Politicians will always put their own personal interests (and brands) ahead of the voters' interests.

our elected officials are incapable are doing anything even slightly difficult. all they can do is take our tax dollars and give it to their friends and families pretending to be "violence interrupters" and build bike lanes. anything beyond that is beyond them.

At least JLG's friends will be ok.

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Anonymous wrote:Yet the housing market is insane right now, with bidding wars being the norm in places like Bethesda and Arlington.

There's been a housing shortage here for years. What's your point?

Builders don't want to have anything to do with DC because of the city's policies. For example, thanks to the city council, especially Janeese Lewis George, it is almost impossible to evict people who refuse to pay their rent. Builders are not charities. They need to make money. Why would builders want to build apartment buildings here when everyone knows that some fraction of people they rent to will almost immediately stop paying and it will take years of court fights to get them to either pay or leave? They'll just go elsewhere.

This is sadly true. I work in affordable housing finance and investors are saying no to doing deals in dc because of the impossible eviction process. There are other prohousing policies that help those in need stay housed, but this aint it

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Anonymous wrote:The Bureau of Labor Statistics says we lost 103,900 jobs in the past year. Maybe this is something the mayoral candidates should address?

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2026/washington-dc-metropolitan-area-lost-103900-jobs-from-january-2025-to-january-2026.htm

How exactly is a mayor going to improve this? Be realistic

Is this a real question? How about by not being incredibly hostile to businesses? That would be a good place to start.

Mayors have such limited ability to deal with the macro issues that are impacting jobs. Being "less hostile" to business is going to have negligible impacts, if any.

Are you dumb or just insane?

Really don't think you know who the world works.

DC leads the country in job losses. If this was happening in any other city, it would be a five alarm fire.

Other cities aren't beholden to the whims of the federal executive branch.

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Anonymous wrote:The Bureau of Labor Statistics says we lost 103,900 jobs in the past year. Maybe this is something the mayoral candidates should address?

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2026/washington-dc-metropolitan-area-lost-103900-jobs-from-january-2025-to-january-2026.htm

How exactly is a mayor going to improve this? Be realistic

Is this a real question? How about by not being incredibly hostile to businesses? That would be a good place to start.

Mayors have such limited ability to deal with the macro issues that are impacting jobs. Being "less hostile" to business is going to have negligible impacts, if any.

Are you dumb or just insane?

Really don't think you know who the world works.

DC leads the country in job losses. If this was happening in any other city, it would be a five alarm fire.

Other cities aren't beholden to the whims of the federal executive branch.

Other cities have politicians who actually try to make their economies better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Bureau of Labor Statistics says we lost 103,900 jobs in the past year. Maybe this is something the mayoral candidates should address?

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2026/washington-dc-metropolitan-area-lost-103900-jobs-from-january-2025-to-january-2026.htm

How exactly is a mayor going to improve this? Be realistic

Is this a real question? How about by not being incredibly hostile to businesses? That would be a good place to start.

Mayors have such limited ability to deal with the macro issues that are impacting jobs. Being "less hostile" to business is going to have negligible impacts, if any.

Are you dumb or just insane?

Really don't think you know who the world works.

DC leads the country in job losses. If this was happening in any other city, it would be a five alarm fire.

Other cities aren't beholden to the whims of the federal executive branch.

Other cities have politicians who actually try to make their economies better.

Please explain in detail how one would do that in DC? And if your answer is "be less hostile to business" then you're not being serious at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Bureau of Labor Statistics says we lost 103,900 jobs in the past year. Maybe this is something the mayoral candidates should address?

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2026/washington-dc-metropolitan-area-lost-103900-jobs-from-january-2025-to-january-2026.htm

How exactly is a mayor going to improve this? Be realistic

Is this a real question? How about by not being incredibly hostile to businesses? That would be a good place to start.

Mayors have such limited ability to deal with the macro issues that are impacting jobs. Being "less hostile" to business is going to have negligible impacts, if any.

Are you dumb or just insane?

Really don't think you know who the world works.

DC leads the country in job losses. If this was happening in any other city, it would be a five alarm fire.

Other cities aren't beholden to the whims of the federal executive branch.

Other cities have politicians who actually try to make their economies better.

Please explain in detail how one would do that in DC? And if your answer is "be less hostile to business" then you're not being serious at all.

You should take a high school economics class. Seriously. The ignorance on this thread is appalling.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Bureau of Labor Statistics says we lost 103,900 jobs in the past year. Maybe this is something the mayoral candidates should address?

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2026/washington-dc-metropolitan-area-lost-103900-jobs-from-january-2025-to-january-2026.htm

How exactly is a mayor going to improve this? Be realistic

Is this a real question? How about by not being incredibly hostile to businesses? That would be a good place to start.

Mayors have such limited ability to deal with the macro issues that are impacting jobs. Being "less hostile" to business is going to have negligible impacts, if any.

Are you dumb or just insane?

Really don't think you know who the world works.

DC leads the country in job losses. If this was happening in any other city, it would be a five alarm fire.

Other cities aren't beholden to the whims of the federal executive branch.

Other cities have politicians who actually try to make their economies better.

Please explain in detail how one would do that in DC? And if your answer is "be less hostile to business" then you're not being serious at all.

You should take a high school economics class. Seriously. The ignorance on this thread is appalling.

So no answer, just deflection.

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Anonymous wrote:The Bureau of Labor Statistics says we lost 103,900 jobs in the past year. Maybe this is something the mayoral candidates should address?

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2026/washington-dc-metropolitan-area-lost-103900-jobs-from-january-2025-to-january-2026.htm

How exactly is a mayor going to improve this? Be realistic

Is this a real question? How about by not being incredibly hostile to businesses? That would be a good place to start.

Mayors have such limited ability to deal with the macro issues that are impacting jobs. Being "less hostile" to business is going to have negligible impacts, if any.

Are you dumb or just insane?

Really don't think you know who the world works.

DC leads the country in job losses. If this was happening in any other city, it would be a five alarm fire.

Other cities aren't beholden to the whims of the federal executive branch.

Other cities have politicians who actually try to make their economies better.

Please explain in detail how one would do that in DC? And if your answer is "be less hostile to business" then you're not being serious at all.

There's only a couple places in the United States that have higher taxes on businesses than DC. The amount of regulatory bullshit we make employers deal with is simply incredible. DC completely stacks the deck against employers in disputes with regular people so that business can never win. It's not surprising if employers are choosing between DC and some other place, they go somewhere else.

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Anonymous wrote:How is rhe DC mayor supposed to make the federal government do anything? Federal employees were fired or pushed out, whole agencies were eliminated, contracts cancelled, and funding to NGOs cut. That's why so many jobs were lost. Add in tech woes and there you have it.

Whoever is mayor should act like a mayor or governor anywhere else and work to attract businesses to provide. I know that’s a foreign concept in DC where the assumption is that jobs (and a base to tax) will just appear because of federal funding

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Anonymous wrote:The Bureau of Labor Statistics says we lost 103,900 jobs in the past year. Maybe this is something the mayoral candidates should address?

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2026/washington-dc-metropolitan-area-lost-103900-jobs-from-january-2025-to-january-2026.htm

How exactly is a mayor going to improve this? Be realistic

Is this a real question? How about by not being incredibly hostile to businesses? That would be a good place to start.

Mayors have such limited ability to deal with the macro issues that are impacting jobs. Being "less hostile" to business is going to have negligible impacts, if any.

Are you dumb or just insane?

Really don't think you know who the world works.

DC leads the country in job losses. If this was happening in any other city, it would be a five alarm fire.

Other cities aren't beholden to the whims of the federal executive branch.

Other cities have politicians who actually try to make their economies better.

Please explain in detail how one would do that in DC? And if your answer is "be less hostile to business" then you're not being serious at all.

There's only a couple places in the United States that have higher taxes on businesses than DC. The amount of regulatory bullshit we make employers deal with is simply incredible. DC completely stacks the deck against employers in disputes with regular people so that business can never win. It's not surprising if employers are choosing between DC and some other place, they go somewhere else.

K.

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DOGE wrecked the local economy. People aren’t spending money when they’re laid off and their neighbors lose their jobs. Tax rates are irrelevant - 10% of zero and 90% of zero are both zero.