Economy

Gov. Glenn Youngkin released a report from the Department of Environmental Quality this week outlining reasoning and recommendations for Virginia to leave the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Virginia women received a median weekly pay of $1,002 in 2020 compared to $1,260 for men. In other words, women earned 79.5% as much as men, though that's not an apples-to-apples comparison.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin was elected on a promise to give Virginians a tax break. But he’s got to get buy-in from state lawmakers before the end of the General Assembly session, which is expected to wrap up this weekend.

Last year, House Democrats cheered the passage of a bill that backers said would make it easier for employees who were denied their overtime wages to get relief in court. This year, the bill’s sponsor and a handful of other Democrats are joining Republicans in voting to scale back some of those rules. Labor advocates say the move would reduce protections for workers while backers of the changes say they’re necessary to clean up a bill that didn’t al

Gov. Glenn Youngkin says Virginia families, fighting to cope with inflation, don’t take solace in the state’s economic outlook. We fact checked Youngkin’s claim about the state’s economic growth, which he made repeatedly during last year’s campaign, and found it credible, but a little low.

In a first-of-its-kind partnership, a mental health advocacy group and city development company will team up to provide affordable and supportive housing for people with a mental illness.

Republicans in Virginia’s House of Delegates have advanced legislation seeking to freeze a staggered minimum wage increase approved by Democrats nearly two years ago. Their efforts are likely to meet a wall of resistance in the state Senate, where Democrats have already rejected efforts to undo one of their signature accomplishments while in the majority.

The Starbucks on Midlothian Turnpike, across from Chesterfield Towne Center, and on Forest Hill Avenue filed paperwork on Wednesday to begin the process of forming a labor union.

On Wednesday, the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s Board of Commissioners voted to suspend eviction proceedings until their next meeting on Feb. 16 following public outrage over the planned eviction scheduled to begin in mid-February.

In the final days of his term, Gov. Ralph Northam has been stressing that his governorship was about more than coronavirus and racial justice issues that led the news.