Christopher Herrington, Ph.D. | Source | Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University
Christopher Herrington, Ph.D.
Economist Chris Herrington is an associate professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business, where he teaches Macroeconomic Theory, Economic Growth and Contemporary Economic Issues. His research expertise includes macroeconomics, growth and development, labor, education and human capital.
Herrington has served as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve banks of St. Louis, Minneapolis and Richmond, the University of Mannheim and the Center for the Advanced Study of Economic Efficiency at Arizona State University.
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Virginia Commonwealth University (https://www.vcu.edu/)
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Christopher M. Herrington, associate professor of economics at Virginia Commonwealth University, found January’s unemployment report for Virginia to be par for the course.
“It looks pretty stable,” he said. “There’s nothing there that looks surprising or concerning, but that comes with a huge grain of salt, [because] that was the January report.
“I think we all know that a lot of the things that people are anxious about right now, having tariffs and federal layoffs and the associated spillover effects from that, didn’t start till February. So I’m hesitant to read too much into one report. I think I’m much more interested in seeing what happens with with the subsequent unemployment reports over the next few months.”