If you’ve been watching trends in the U.S. economy over the last year, you might be having an experience similar to mine — feeling a bit of whiplash comparing unemployment and poverty numbers to the ebbs and flows of the overall strong stock market.

As a tech and business reporter, I often keep my eye on which companies will go public, and which industries are growing based on how they’re performing. These details can point to expansion and success for the region.

But it’s far from the whole story. It is the job of Technical.ly’s mid-Atlantic reporters to cover the tech and innovation economies in their respective cities every year, but 2020 was an entirely different ballgame.

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