When asked about gross revenues may reflect the relatively hypothetical places to invest, businesses lackluster GDP growth in the District, es- that operated exclusively in the District pecially when compared to the rest of the were the most likely to report that they country. [...] Regarding the economy, 3 in pretation of the survey results would note that 47 percent of survey respondents did Second, there is an urgent need for strat- not suffer from any crimes in the past year, egies that attract new investments to the and the most common reported crimes District. [...] interest is linked to the changing work The pessimism about the District’s econo- culture and population dynamics in the my, and the lack of interest in investing in aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the D. [...] and the metro area, the survey captured the views of an influential subset of busi- nesses in the region. [...] In future rounds of the survey, the Rivlin Initiative will increase the sample size and create a sam- ple that is representative of all businesses in the D.
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