{"id":95963,"date":"2025-08-20T04:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/95963\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T04:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:35:06","slug":"weldon-cooper-center-predicts-economist-hardship-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/95963\/","title":{"rendered":"Weldon Cooper Center predicts economist hardship for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -UVA\u2019s Weldon Cooper Center shared its quarterly economic forecast, predicting rough waters ahead for Virginia\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The center sited back-and-forth tariffs rollouts, mass federal layoffs and a bubble in the construction industry due to data centers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Its economists believe 2026 could be a year of 0% job growth, with this year already seeing the slowest growth since 2021<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis has been a very challenging year with the ongoing policy uncertainty around both tariffs around federal downsizing and around a number of factors that make forecasting quite challenging,\u201d Weldon Cooper Center Executive Director Eric Scorsone said, \u201cand honestly, I expect more of that throughout the rest of this year.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a story idea? Send us your news tip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.29news.com\/2025\/08\/19\/weldon-cooper-center-predicts-economist-hardship-2026\/mailto:wvirnewsdesk@gray.tv\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WVIR. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -UVA\u2019s Weldon Cooper Center shared its quarterly economic forecast, predicting rough waters ahead for Virginia\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4,2408,28,101,4934,4932,4931,4933,4935,4930],"class_list":["post-95963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-video-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}