Another 3.2 Million Americans, Including 61k Virginians, File Initial Unemployment Benefit Claims
Another week, another set of nasty unemployment insurance weekly claims data from the U.S.…
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Another 4.4 Million Unemployment Claims Nationally; Another 84,387 Claims in Virginia
Another week, another set of *ugly* numbers from the Department of Labor on unemployment…
Virginia’s Huge Unemployment Numbers Likely to Get “Huger” (Gig Economy Edition)
by A Siegel For the week ending April 4, “seasonally unadjusted initial claims in Virginia was…
Another 149,758 Virginians File for Unemployment, On Top of Previous Week’s 112,497
Another week of the COVID-19 crisis, another 6.6 MILLION (!) Americans filing for unemployment, on…
Coronavirus-Crisis-Triggered Unemployment Claims Soar in the U.S. (6.6 million filed just last week)…
Ugh. And the worst thing about this is it's only going to get (a lot) worse before it gets…
Joint Economic Committee Vice Chair Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08): “Unprecedented UI Claims…
From Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08)'s office: VC Beyer: Unprecedented UI Claims “Far Worse” Than…
Is the Recession Really Over
Your answer might depend on government data, or your answer might depend on what you see, when you…
McDonnell Business Tax Increase Spurs Employment
An increased direct tax on wages paid by Virginia employers resulting from the McDonnell…
The New and Not-So-New De Facto Slavery
Two recent articles show the lengths that Republicans will go to appropriate the time of the…
Mitt Romney: “I’m Not Concerned With The Very Poor”
You know Mitt Romney's said something truly outrageous when even the host of CNN's…
