{"id":591242,"date":"2026-04-24T18:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=591242"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:26:06","slug":"washington-dc-now-has-the-highest-unemployment-rate-in-the-country-at-6-9-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=591242","title":{"rendered":"Washington DC Now Has the Highest Unemployment Rate in the Country at 6.9 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wine-snob-man-150x150.jpg\" \/>A few years ago, I was eating breakfast in a DC hotel listening to two men talk about their schedule for the day.\u00a0 Their business was decorating homes for Christmas, and they were discussing their heavy workload. As I listened quietly the men were describing premium rates for DC families who wanted their decorating services [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/24\/washington-dc-now-has-the-highest-unemployment-rate-in-the-country-at-6-9-percent\/\">Washington DC Now Has the Highest Unemployment Rate in the Country at 6.9 Percent<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/\">The Last Refuge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wine-snob-man-150x150.jpg\" title=\"Washington DC Now Has the Highest Unemployment Rate in the Country at 6.9 Percent\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I was eating breakfast in a DC hotel listening to two men talk about their schedule for the day.\u00a0 Their business was decorating homes for Christmas, and they were discussing their heavy workload. As I listened quietly the men were describing premium rates for DC families who wanted their decorating services&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=591242\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Washington DC Now Has the Highest Unemployment Rate in the Country at 6.9 Percent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/591243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}