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

Obviously some of those job losses are in MD and VA, but still kinda bananas given there's only 325,000 or so households in DC.

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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.

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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.

It is a five alarm fire. But we have no control whatsoever (less than any state) over the politicians continually setting that fire.

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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.

This.

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I still can't believe that MPD helped DOGE break in to the US Institute of Peace.

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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.

I mean, we used to, too -- his name was Anthony Williams and he made it his explicit goal to attact business and investment to DC, and he literally oversaw BILLIONS coming in (for example, the opening of the convention center and the corresponding rush of funds.)

Anthony Williams is why DC came to life starting in the 2000s.

Janeese's magical thinking scares me, and Kenyan's ineptitude and laziness scares me. Why are these our options?

Can we get Tony Williams to run again?

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The criticisms of the DC government on housing construction are off base if you look at the facts:

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/14/cities-can-have-abundant-housing-if-theyre-willing-to-work-for-it/

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Anonymous wrote:The criticisms of the DC government on housing construction are off base if you look at the facts:

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/14/cities-can-have-abundant-housing-if-theyre-willing-to-work-for-it/

Neat an opinion piece by someone without a connection to reality. He claims

As a result of the housing construction boom, rents in D.C. have been rising more moderately than in its surrounding suburbs, where homebuilding has not kept pace.

But that ignores the elephant in the room:

The following table summarizes the average rent for one-bedroom apartments in Washington D.C. and nearby areas as of April 2026:

Location Average Rent (1-Bedroom)
Washington, D.C. $2,425
Arlington, VA $2,391
Silver Spring, MD $1,907
Alexandria, VA $2,200
Hyattsville, MD $2,179

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Anonymous wrote:I still can't believe that MPD helped DOGE break in to the US Institute of Peace.

How many wars has the USIP prevented? It is an expensive retirement home that went largely unnoticed for decades.

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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.

It is a five alarm fire. But we have no control whatsoever (less than any state) over the politicians continually setting that fire.

Do politicians create jobs?

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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.

It is a five alarm fire. But we have no control whatsoever (less than any state) over the politicians continually setting that fire.

Do politicians create jobs?

DOGE killed thousands of jobs. Keep up.

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Anonymous wrote:I still can't believe that MPD helped DOGE break in to the US Institute of Peace.

How many wars has the USIP prevented? It is an expensive retirement home that went largely unnoticed for decades.

How many questions are not possible to answer?

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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.

It is a five alarm fire. But we have no control whatsoever (less than any state) over the politicians continually setting that fire.

Do politicians create jobs?

DOGE killed thousands of jobs. Keep up.

So, that's the only way to create jobs? We need the government to create an agency to employ people?'

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Anonymous wrote:I still can't believe that MPD helped DOGE break in to the US Institute of Peace.

How many wars has the USIP prevented? It is an expensive retirement home that went largely unnoticed for decades.

How many questions are not possible to answer?

If you can't measure the effectiveness of an organization, I might suggest that it's entirely unnecessary.

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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

It's funny that people like JLG have done so much to prevent housing from being built here while simultaneously pretending to be pro-housing.