There’s the obvious problem that expertise is dying
Meh. Mainstream Local Journalism is dying. If you want to get answers to these questions, they're available. You need to start parsing Bureau of Labor and Statistics data or observing the patterns of population movement and other ambient business activities or actually rolling up your sleeves and actively sampling the unemployed.
There are organizations and firms that still do this work. There are professionals that do this research. But they aren't in touch with writers, because giving people useful information isn't the business model for modern media. Certainly not some local FOX News affiliate.
Meh. Mainstream Local Journalism is dying. If you want to get answers to these questions, they're available. You need to start parsing Bureau of Labor and Statistics data or observing the patterns of population movement and other ambient business activities or actually rolling up your sleeves and actively sampling the unemployed.
There are organizations and firms that still do this work. There are professionals that do this research. But they aren't in touch with writers, because giving people useful information isn't the business model for modern media. Certainly not some local FOX News affiliate.