The sweeping layoffs impacting federal government and contracting jobs is hitting the D.C. region’s job market particularly hard, with concerns that the unemployment rate in Northern Virginia will reach levels not seen since the pandemic.
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July 22, 2025A new report released Monday by the Northern Virginia Chamber, in collaboration with the global professional services company Accenture, aims to offer a way to reverse the jobs trend and reignite growth going forward.
The road map states four goals, with lots of recommendations it believes will help in meeting those goals. First and foremost, the report calls for a reinvention of the region’s economy, which it said has been overly reliant on the federal government.
While it doesn’t mean the region should ignore the federal infrastructure already in place, the report states there should be more focus on luring artificial intelligence and quantum computing, as well as other tech companies. It also recommends expanding the region’s energy capacity.
“It’s a real call to action to think differently about our future, more specifically around reinventing our economy to the economy of the future, some of which is very much here today,” said Julie Coons, president and CEO of the Northern Virginia Chamber.
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