A Northern Virginia native, Scott McCaffrey has four decades of reporting, editing and newsroom experience in the local area plus Florida, South Carolina and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. He spent 26 years as editor of the Sun Gazette newspaper chain. For Local News Now, he covers government and civic issues in Arlington, Fairfax County and Falls Church.
Total employment in Arlington decreased by 4.5% during the first year of the second Trump administration, tying with D.C. for the biggest drop nationwide.
The decline was part of a downward trend across the inner D.C. region in figures reported Aug. 28 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.