State Employment and Unemployment Summary

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm

How The Unemployment Rate Affects Everybody

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/10/unemployment-rate-get-real.asp

Virginia Labor Market Information > Current Employment Statistics (CES)

https://virginiaworks.com/current-employment-statistics-ces/page86321/1/size86321/48?page86321=1&size86321=48

Virginia Job Growth

" Overall, employment in Virginia is projected to grow 9.3 percent by 2024 exceeding the national growth rate of 6.5 percent." 

https://www.vec.virginia.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-Jobs-Outlook.pdf

Booming Telework Spurs Job Growth in Rural Virginia – Bacon's Rebellion

" Now Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the University of Virginia's Demographics Research Group, has been so bold as to suggest the dynamic might be shifting again. New Census Bureau data, he writes in the StatChat blog, suggest that over the past three years "the places Americans chose to live are becoming less connected to where their employer is based.""

https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/booming-telework-spurs-job-growth-in-rural-virginia/

EDITORIAL: Virginia clobbers Maryland in job growth | Opinion | fredericksburg.com

" The new deal Virginia has struck with CSX is going to make it easier to get to Northern Virginia from the Fredericksburg area and points south by rail."

https://www.fredericksburg.com/opinion/editorial-virginia-clobbers-maryland-in-job-growth/article_ec905186-3535-5cd2-a35d-1506fd2257ea.html

LETTER: What does 'best educated' state really mean? | Letters To Editor | fredericksburg.com

" The DOE reports that there will be 68 percent more job openings in infrastructure-related fields in the next five years."

https://www.fredericksburg.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/letter-what-does-best-educated-state-really-mean/article_0807825f-83a9-5eb9-ad69-f610c548cc7c.html