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Federal layoffs drove 96% of 2025 job losses | WMAL

March 19, 2026
  • D.C. Policy Center

On March 16, 2026, Executive Director Yesim Sayin was quoted by WMAL:

“It is hard to attribute a separate value for each,” said Yesim Sayin, executive director of the nonpartisan D.C. Policy Center. “For sure, remote work led to the long-term commercial real estate crises, and federal layoffs just made things worse.”

Read more: Federal layoffs drove 96% of 2025 job losses

Additional reading: Is the District of Columbia still competitive?

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