Urban Wire MetroTrends week in review
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  Last week, MetroTrends bloggers looked behind the headlines, offering facts and analysis about both employment and housing woes:

  • Rich Johnson debunks the suggestion that older workers are getting more than their fair share of jobs.
  • Zach McDade introduces our latest interactive mapping tool showing foreclosures by zip code in hard-hit Prince George’s County
  • Margaret Simms explains why trends in unemployment claims don’t necessarily line up with trends in unemployment rates.

 

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