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The U.S. Senate voted Monday to approve a bipartisan compromise to restore emergency unemployment insurance benefits for more than 2 million long-term unemployed American, including as many as 20,000 Virginians, according to some estimates.
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Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased 0.1 percentage point in February to 4.9 percent, the seventh consecutive monthly decline.
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine released a statement after a minority of senators blocked a vote on passage of emergency unemployment insurance legislation on Tuesday.
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Virginia’s unemployment rate fell to 5.3 percent in the month of March, according to data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is the lowest unemployment rate in the Commonwealth since December 2008. Virginia has the lowest unemployment rate in the Southeast, and the second-lowest unemployment rate east of the Mississippi River.
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Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased 0.1 percentage point this month to 5.5 percent, the third consecutive monthly decline, and was 0.6 percentage point below the year-ago December rate of 6.1 percent. This month’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 5.5 percent is the lowest in four years when the December 2008 rate was 5.3 percent. The labor force expanded for the fourth consecutive month, as the additional people that reported working exceeded the drop in the number of unemployed. Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is below the December national rate of 7.8 percent, which was unchanged from November.
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Virginia’s unemployment rate fell to 5.6% in the month of November, according to data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 5.9 percent for the third consecutive month, but was down 0.4 percentage point from September a year ago.
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Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was unchanged in August at 5.9 percent, but was down 0.5 percentage point from August a year ago.
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Unemployment continued to inch upward in July in Staunton and Waynesboro, while the rate in Augusta was down slightly from where it was in June.
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Unemployment was up sharply in Waynesboro, Staunton and Augusta County in June, according to figures released Wednesday morning by the Virginia Employment Commission
