Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Virginia rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of ...

For the week ending May 10, 3,992 people filed initial unemployment insurance claims — which is 46.8% higher than the previous week’s 2,720 claims and a 67.3% increase over a comparable week last year ...

The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits for the week ending Nov. 29 fell to 191,000 from the previous week’s ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia’s unemployment rate is on the rise. In fact, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says Virginia was the only state in the country to see a statistically significant rise ...

A Bluefield University economics professor said Virginia’s upcoming minimum wage increase will most likely result in increased unemployment.

The unemployment rate in Virginia was up in July, the seventh straight month that we’ve had an increase – July, note, was the seventh month of the year. Beyer also cited the hundreds of thousands of ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Virginia dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 2,385 ...