In this latest installment of Mo Co Economy Watch, I address some odds and ends: ranking the retail submarkets; estimating the share of the daytime population that can work from home; and looking back at WARN notices during the COVID-19 recession. Retail submarket rankings We wrote recently about Montgomery County’s current/recent struggles to generate retail …
In this week’s MoCo Economy Watch blogpost, we take a dive into… shopping!? Well, Retail anyway. More precisely, how the County’s retail is connected to state & local revenue and our economic development aspirations. A premature obituary for brick-and-mortar retail It seems like every week or two there is a new article being written about …
In this third MoCo Economy Watch blogpost, we check in on some new employment numbers. What we find is that in early 2021 the number of unemployed County residents did not change much, but labor force participation increased. Both of these ran counter to the statewide trends during the same time period, which featured falling …
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