Economy

Several hospitals in Central Virginia are violating federal regulations that require them to post prices they negotiate with insurers for thousands of medications, procedures and other services.

President Joe Biden recently lauded once and possibly future Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s record as a job creator when he led Virginia from 2014 to 2018.

Officials say, anecdotally, that they’re seeing an increase in people visiting U-pick farms and other agritourism sites since stay-at-home orders were lifted. At a local blueberry farm in Chesterfield, customers have been clearing fields since Monday.

Minor league baseball teams took a financial hit when the pandemic shuttered their 2020 season. New bipartisan legislation proposed by two Virginia senators hopes to help teams like the Richmond Flying Squirrels recover.

The program sets aside an estimated $5 billion to pay off Farm Service Agency loans, which are made to farmers who don’t have the means or credit to get them elsewhere. The funds will impact about 16,000 farmers of color.

Last month, legal aid groups sued Virginia’s Employment Commissioner on behalf of Virginia residents who either hadn’t received their unemployment benefits or whose payments were cut off unexpectedly.

The Virginia Employment Commission has begun settlement talks with residents who filed a federal class-action lawsuit over delays in their unemployment benefits. Last month, legal aid groups sued the head of the VEC on behalf of five Virginia residents.

President Joe Biden proposed a $1.8 trillion dollar spending package last month, which could dramatically reduce the child poverty rate nationwide. It would support a broader Democratic push to eradicate the condition.

With it’s French-salon style exterior, Uptown Gallery may give the impression of a high-end boutique or pâtisserie. You may be surprised, or disappointed depending on how hungry you are, to find not croissants, but a vast array of artwork spanning multiple different mediums from an eclectic combination of interesting artists.

Virginia has one of the lowest union membership rates of any state. In 2020, only 4.4% of Virginia workers were union members, fifth lowest in the nation. But unions have a long history in the commonwealth, flourishing around the turn of the 20th century in industrial Richmond and the coalfields of the Southwest before union density began to fall in the 1950s.