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By Guy Page
Unlike four other New England states, Vermont has failed to recover all of the jobs it lost from the 2020 pandemic-induced recession, according to a July 31 report prepared for the Vermont Emergency Board.
Vermont lost 21% of all non-farm jobs during February – April 2020. Since then, the economy has built back up to 97.9% of all jobs – 2.1% shy of a complete return. Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island have all shot past their 2020 benchmark. Massachusetts has fought back to 97.3%, the Economic and Policy Resources (EPR) report says.
The report also noted that the worker shortage seems to have decreased from 2.5 jobs for every worker in January 2025 to about 1.7 per worker in April.
Iran bombing, Canadian tariffs, AI growth impact on VT economy discussed
EPR principal Tom Kavet also delivered an economic forecast to the state’s Emergency Board on Thursday morning, July 31 at the Vermont State House. Kavet noted that revenue is strong, and that the bombing of Iran registered barely as a “blip” in the natonal and state economic performance.
The state’s top economist also noted the huge potential impact – for good or ill – of the explosion of the AI industry.
“There are huge, huge bets going on” with the build-out of AI. If the AI industry performs well, that’s good, but the debts are high and will come due if the AI economy replicates the bursting of the dot.com bubble, Kavet said.
As for Canadian tariffs – ‘who knows what that’s going to be,” Kavet said. Access to Canadian energy (especially the western part of the state reliant on Canadian natural gas) needs to be watched carefully, an EPR spokesperson said.
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Categories: Business
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Vermont still not back to pre-Enlightenment job numbers
Well, you shouldn’t have shut down the state, governor. (And you shouldn’t have signed the paper giving states the authority to shut down, Mr. President.) Not even the much-maligned WHO recommended shutdowns in their pandemic guidance document released in 2019. Naturally, all the people who were correct on this issue were ignored.
The pandemic exercise called Agenda 21 called for shutting everything down globally, which is what happened. The WHO, World Economic Forum, United Nations, World Bank, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as others, were key stakeholders and decision makers. The World Bank released funds to fight three pandemics globally: COVID-19, systemic racism and hate speech. Covid was used as a pretext to change the social contract in all Western nations. During COVID-9 governments like Vermont hired their equity directors and srart DEI programs tonight systemic racism. At the same time the definition of racism was changed in the Marriam Webster Dictionary to remove the word segregation and add systems of power. Then schools segregated children into Affinity spaces and labeledbthem as oppressors and the oppressed. This was all done to comply with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The biggest frustration is the fact they were paying 600 a week extra on top of unemployment benefits. Why would you go back to work? Our government made there own problems, they created government dependency, but never admit it. Thanks again Governor Scott, much appreciated!
Correction. Our government made OUR own problems. And we’re still suffering for tremendously bad decisions and incompetent “leadership.”