As Philadelphia recovers from the economic shocks of COVID-19, local businesses face similar issues — like inflation, supply chain problems and ongoing labor shortages — that business leaders nationwide surveyed in JPMorgan Chase’s 2022 Business Leaders Outlook Pulse survey say they grapple with.
But Philadelphia businesses have good reasons to be optimistic. Despite the pandemic, the region gained 122,800 jobs from August 2021 to August 2022. The city has a fairly low unemployment rate and…