Debbie Cockrell: Pierce County economy will bounce back from COVID-19, but it will take time, experts say
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 1/28/2021 Debbie Cockrell, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Jan. 28 The message from the 2021 Pierce County Economic Index is that things could be worse but have a ways to go before getting better.
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The index, produced by Neil Johnson of Sound Resource Economics and presented Wednesday morning by the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber s annual Horizons Economic Forecast breakfast, showed that federal stimulus payments gave a 5.2 percent boost in the annual index amid the coronavirus pandemic.
That counts as the 11th consecutive year of growth for the county.