Axios: Virginia unemployment rate sees longest rise since '08 crisis

VIRGINIA – New reporting from Axios detailed that Virginia’s unemployment rate has continued to increase over the last five months – the longest streak since 2008. Winsome Earle-Sears has defended Donald Trump’s attacks on Virginia jobs and downplayed and dismissed the severity of losing a job. 

Axios: Virginia unemployment rate sees longest rise since '08 crisis

• Virginia's unemployment rate is on a steady five-month increase — the longest streak since the 2008 Great Recession.
• Why it matters: The Trump administration's federal job slashing and freezing of grants, contracts and medical research may be to blame.
• By the numbers: The state's total labor force decreased by more than 11,500 compared with last May, according to new Virginia Works household survey data.

###