Our MAGA governor, Glenn Youngkin, wants you to believe the Virginia economy is “roaring,” as the unemployment rate is starting to tick up, and new and continued federal jobless claims are at uncomfortable levels.
The first coach in a 16-over-1 upset is a top candidate for the UVA Basketball job. The second just got fired at Iona after two mediocre, but not awful, seasons.
The Trump administration is cutting more than 1,900 jobs at the Department of Education, just under half the workforce – and our congressman, Ben Cline, doesn’t appear concerned in the slightest.
The market is down, bigly, job cuts are up, more bigly, and against this backdrop, Donald Trump is, for some reason, focused on “jerking around the entire continent of North America,” in the words of Northern Virginia Congressman Don Beyer.
The Trump/Musk gutting of the federal workforce is threatening 300,000 people in Virginia directly employed by the federal government, and another 375,000 who work for government contractors.
Healthcare staffing agencies in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania that denied employees overtime wages are on the hook for $2.4 million in back wages and damages.
Republicans have wanted to get rid of the federal Department of Education pretty much since Jimmy Carter signed the legislation creating it in 1979.
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