Virginia
Governor Glenn Youngkin Announces the Commonwealth’s April Unemployment Rate Unchanged from March at Three Percent
RICHMOND, VA – Governor Glenn Youngkin right now introduced Virginia’s unemployment price held regular at 3 p.c in April, whereas whole nonfarm payroll employment elevated by 13,600 jobs. The Commonwealth’s seasonally adjusted unemployment price of three p.c is 1.3 share factors beneath the speed from a yr in the past. The labor power elevated by 18,281 to 4,329,907, because the variety of unemployed residents decreased by 1,324 to 129,771. The variety of employed residents rose by 19,605 to 4,200,136.
In keeping with BLS family survey knowledge, Virginia’s labor power expanded to over 4.3 million staff in April 2022. Since February of this yr, the labor power grew by over 52,000. The typical month-to-month progress within the dimension of the labor power from February by way of April of 2022 was 17,352, whereas the 2021 common was -1,653. Labor power progress March’s labor power progress was the second-largest month-to-month improve whereas April’s was the third-largest going again to 1976.
The Commonwealth’s labor power participation price rose by 0.2 of a share level to 63.5 p.c in April. The labor power participation price measures the proportion of the civilian inhabitants age 16 and older that’s employed or actively searching for work.
“We’ve got greater than 60,000 Virginians working right now than after I took workplace,” mentioned Governor Glenn Youngkin. “Our state continues so as to add jobs month after month as we develop alternatives for companies and households in each nook of the Commonwealth. There’s extra work to be accomplished, Virginia remains to be hundreds of jobs wanting pre-pandemic ranges. Our mission stays clear, proceed making Virginia the perfect place to reside, work and lift a household.”
“The variety of employed residents has risen a complete of almost 62,000 and by a mean of 20,500 throughout February, March, and April in 2022, in comparison with averaging beneath 5,000 a month in 2021,” mentioned Secretary of Commerce and Commerce Caren Merrick. “Additionally, the labor power participation price rose to 63.5 p.c — almost a full share level increased than on the finish of 2021. This is a sign that many Virginians are getting off the sidelines and again into the sport.”
“The unemployment price has not risen in two years and is a 3rd decrease than a yr in the past,” mentioned Secretary of Labor Bryan Slater. “Whereas the unemployment price can generally go down even when jobs are misplaced, VEC knowledge for April confirmed whole employment went up whereas unemployment went down. These traits point out that Virginia’s restoration from the newest recession is transferring ahead.”
Virginia payroll employment elevated by 13,600 to 4,037,800 in April. From April 2021 to April 2022, the VEC estimates that institutions in Virginia gained 124,500 jobs, a rise of three.2 p.c. In April, the non-public sector recorded an over-the-year achieve of 115,700 jobs, whereas employment within the public sector gained 8,800 jobs.
In comparison with a yr in the past, on a seasonally adjusted foundation, 9 of 11 main trade divisions skilled employment will increase whereas two noticed employment decreases. The most important over-the-year job achieve occurred in leisure and hospitality, up 62,400 jobs (+18.4%). The second-largest over-the-year job achieve occurred in skilled and enterprise providers, as much as 18,600 jobs (+2.4%). The following largest over-the-year job achieve occurred in training and well being providers, as much as 18,000 jobs (+3.4%). Different job positive factors occurred in commerce and transportation (+11,200 jobs), authorities (+8,800 jobs), miscellaneous (+6,400 jobs), data (+2,300 jobs), building (+300 jobs), and mining (+200 jobs). Inside authorities, native (+2,500 jobs) and state authorities (+700 jobs) each gained jobs over the yr whereas the federal authorities noticed a lower in employment (-700 jobs). The most important job loss throughout April occurred in finance (-2,700 jobs) to 207,500. The second-largest lower occurred in manufacturing with a lower of 1,000 jobs to 235,900.
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— By Katie Farthing
Read on for some of the ways Virginia is ranked tops:
Our college life
USA Today rated Charlottesville and Williamsburg as two of the best small college towns in the nation thanks to their rich history, beautiful scenery, and fun daily life.
Our beer
Staunton has the 10th best small town beer scene, according to USA Today.
Our museums
We’re home to the 7th best free museum in the nation, designated by USA Today. The Blue Ridge Music Center in Galax lets visitors write song lyrics and mix mountain music, as well as see live performances.
Our small town food scene
Abingdon may be mini in stature, but it’s high in the small town food scene—number 3 in the country to be exact, according to USA Today.
Our niche neighborhoods
Uniquely charming and underrated, Colonial Village in Arlington is the best place to live, according to Niche. It’s all thanks to a lively nightlife, beautiful parks, highly rated-schools, and a young population of residents.
Our airports
Dulles International Airport is the 11th best in the world and second in the country, according to AirHelp.
This is web-exclusive content from the December 2024 issue.
Jude Joffe-Block:
There’s a pattern where people have visited the DMV, and they at some point there must have made a mistake on a form where they identified — they marked a box identifying themselves as noncitizens somewhere in those forms. We’re not really sure how exactly this happens.
But after that visit to the DMV, they got a letter in the mail from their local election official, saying, we think you might not be a citizen. Please affirm your citizenship.
We spoke to a voter, Nadra Wilson, who that letter was sent to the wrong address. It got forwarded. By the time she got it, the deadline had already passed. She was able to re-register. We spoke to another voter, Rina Shaw. She did get the letter in the mail letting her know that she had to affirm her citizenship. And she did send it back.
But, even then, she was still not on the rolls. And she was able to call and sort that out. But all of this does take time. Both of those voters did end up voting early this week, though.
The Syracuse Orange (5-2, 2-2) welcome the Virginia Tech Hokies (5-3, 3-1)to the Dome on Saturday for a critical ACC match-up. Kickoff is Noon on The CW and here’s what we’re watching for:
Kevin: Protect Kyle
Virginia Tech defensive end Antwaun Powell-Ryland has nine sacks and seventeen hurries on the season and leads a strong Hokies pass rush. Syracuse needs to keep APR from disrupting their passing game so that Kyle McCord can attack a secondary rated the second-worst in coverage by PFF. Will the Orange use screens and draws to force APR to read and react instead of letting him just tee off and attack McCord? If Syracuse can negate APR’s impact they could score enough to win this one.
Mike: Make the Most of Allen
With Yasin Willis doubtful for Saturday’s game, this could be the first time since last season where LeQuint Allen is leaned on as a bell-cow back. How much that affects the offensive gameplan remains to be seen, but it might incite more designed plays as opposed to the RPO package SU has run very frequently. The o-line is struggling to block effectively on option plays lately so to make sure they can get Allen wide lanes to run through, a more traditional approach could work better this week.
Dom: Keeping momentum up for Syracuse’s 12th man
The Orange are once again back in the Dome for the first time in quite a while (September 28 to be exact). Since then, Syracuse’s road trip resulted in two nice wins over UNLV and NC State, then most recently with a bitter blowout loss. Fans will be looking for the Orange to bounce back against an inconsistent but still tough ACC opponent. Considering it’s also alumni weekend, the Dome should have plenty of seats filled and should look to take care of business.
Max: Keep Kyron Drones in the pocket
VT’s quarterback is extremely dangerous in the running game, racking up over 300 rushing yards through eight games, good for 19th in the ACC. The only conference QBs with more rushing yards are Georgia Tech’s Haynes King and Stanford’s Ashton Daniels, who gave the Orange fits on the ground this year. Syracuse’s rush defense still ranks in the top 50 in rush yards allowed per game, and it will need to keep Drones in the pocket to find some success this Saturday.
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