Washington DC has the highest unemployment rate in the US<\/p>\n
Alicia Contreras was in Tunisia, working as the deputy country representative for Libya for USAID, when she received the news: she was fired. The Trump administration had ceased the cooperation agency\u2019s operations and terminated most overseas staff. What she didn\u2019t expect back then was that after a double major, an MBA and 17 years of experience as a public servant, she wouldn\u2019t be able to find a job back at home.<\/p>\n
Contreras moved back to the Washington DC area last September and immediately started her job search. She looked for positions in both the public and private sectors, in-person, hybrid and remote. She focused her search mostly on the US capital city and its two nearby states, Maryland and Virginia, because of her family commitments: she has two children, ages three and six. Six months later, none of her close to 100 applications have been successful.<\/p>\n
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