Where are the jobs? Washington County faring better than the state after pandemic

Blue Spring Egg Farm opensA ribbon cutting ceremony is held at Herbruck's Poultry Ranch's new $100 million sustainable cage-free egg-laying facilit...

August 20, 2022
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Blue Spring Egg Farm opensA ribbon cutting ceremony is held at Herbruck's Poultry Ranch's new $100 million sustainable cage-free egg-laying facility near Mercersburg.Washington County is faring better than the state and some of its neighbors in recovering jobs lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.But that news is tempered by the fact that local job growth has been virtually flat since February, said Adam Scavette, a regional economist at the Baltimore branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.$6.6 million road: Construction to start soon on second phase of Professional BoulevardMaryland added 12,000 jobs in July, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.

Mike Lewis