Lizann Lightfoot raised five children on an enlisted Marine’s salary. She knows the financial stresses that come with being a military family.

Last year’s priorities included funding for the Virginia Food Access Investment Fund, money for the public defender’s office and preservation of a state tax credit program.

Veterans make excellent employees. Yet over 18 percent of military veterans are 'functionally unemployed,' according to new ...

Many U.S. veterans face prescription drug addiction as a result of pain, trauma and unique stresses tied to military service. The problem is complex, with roots in both physical injury and ...

Gov. Youngkin pauses Virginia's emergency food program after federal government resumes SNAP benefits following court rulings ...

Seventeen individuals involved in a COVID-19 pandemic unemployment benefit scheme have learned their punishment with the final defendant sentenced earlier this month in a U.S. District Court in ...

Furloughed federal workers are beginning to seek unemployment in Virginia, with more than 900 claims related to the government shutdown filed during the first two weeks of October. That’s according to ...

More than 900 federal employees have filed claims for unemployment insurance in Virginia after going on unpaid furlough during the federal government shutdown, now in its fourth week.

RICHMOND — Researchers have rolled out a new economy monitor to track changes in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia region. The Brookings Institution, a nonprofit research organization, ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Virginia dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 2,289 ...