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[geekchick]

Yeah, the local market kind of sucks, but apparently not as much as everywhere else.

As a region, Washington is emerging as among the country's strongest. No U.S. urban area added more jobs in October over last year than Washington, which gained 46,000, the Department of Labor reported. By comparison, hard-hit New York City lost 59,000 jobs, Detroit 38,000, Chicago 28,000 and formerly high-flying San Jose and Atlanta 27,000 each.

"The strongest area economy? Washington, D.C.," the Kiplinger Letter reported Nov. 16. "The dot-com blow-up took a smaller toll here than elsewhere, the federal government is on the rise."