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The Virginia agency that processes unemployment benefits doesn’t expect to finish clearing its pandemic-related backlog until next summer. A top agency official gave that update to lawmakers at an oversight hearing in Richmond on Wednesday. Jeff Ryan of the Virginia Employment Commission says first-level appeals are the largest pressure point remaining, with an estimated 45,000 cases not expected to clear...

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Hundreds of thousands of people in the D.C. area could find themselves temporarily out of work if Congress fails to reach a budget deal. News4’s Mark Segraves shares tips from the D.C. Department of Employment Services on what to do right now.

Analysts expect a faster pace than the first quarter, but it comes off a low base due to the lockdowns in Shanghai in April and May last year.

President Joe Biden keeps seeing good economic news and bad public approval ratings.

Nearly three years since the start of the pandemic, Virginia continues working to climb out of a mountain of problems associated with its unprecedented number of unemployment insurance claims, including a massive backlog with appeals cases. But the head of the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) said the agency has made a lot of headway.

Almost three years after the start of the pandemic, Virginia is still working to manage a mountain of problems associated with an unprecedented number of unemployment insurance claims. The News4 I-Team continues to hear from people each week who say they still can’t get answers. Consumer Investigative Reporter Susan Hogan sat down with the head of the Virginia Employment Commission,...

A group of employees began 2023 without work after the abrupt closure of the Burger King restaurant where they had worked — some for more than 15 years.

Nonfarm payrolls in September increased 263,000 for the month, compared to the Dow Jones estimate of 275,000. The unemployment rate was 3.5%.

Slightly fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to stand out as one of the strongest segments of the U.S. economy.

The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that they have raised the benchmark interest rate by 0.75% to curb high inflation.

America’s employers shrugged off high inflation and weakening growth to add 372,000 jobs in June, a surprisingly strong gain that will likely spur the Federal Reserve to keep sharply raising interest rates to cool the economy and slow price increases