Track layoffs and unemployment rates in Southwest Virginia
Tracking layoffs and unemployment
Since the economy started to seriously tank in October, nearly 2,000 workers in Southwest Virginia have been laid off. Laborers, manufacturing plant workers, mill workers, high tech workers, medical professionals. Unemployment is climbing as the recession deepens. Now, you can track layoffs and see which areas are the hardest hit on our layoffs map, and track the regions unemployment rates in an interactive timeline graphic.
- Matt Chittum
- Data Delivery Editor
- matt.chittum@roanoke.com
- 540-981-3331
More than 1,000 black Roanokers found their final resting place in Springwood Burial Park, a private black cemetery in the Lincoln Terrace area of the city. After the cemetery closed in 1979, it fell into disrepair. But in the last year, Roanoker Bob Bird has been on a mission to reclaim the graveyard and document who lies in the hundreds of lost graves. So far, he's identified more than 325 of them. See who they are in our searchable Springwood Burial Park database.
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Data in the News
- The Roanoke Times' Age of Uncertainty series
- In these times of economic uncertainty, what's at stake in the Roanoke and New River valleys?
- Roanoke City Councilman Alfred Dowe resigns over travel expenses
- Trophy freshwater fish: The James is still king
- Virginia's toxin levels higher than reported; Radford Arsenal is state's biggest polluter
- Digging up the past at Roanoke's Springwood Burial Park
- City population growth: Roanoke not taking leave of its census
Primary Sources
- Indictment against Former Roanoke City Councilman Alfred Dowe
- Indictment against Roanoke Neo-Nazi Bill White
- Search warrant affadavit for the Jeep believed involved in Roanoke jogger hit-and-run
- Judge's ruling that search of FloydFest guest was illegal
- Michael Vick's indictment on dogfighting charges
- The Virginia Tech shootings panel report
- Henry County sheriff's department indictments
- Former Henry County Sheriff Frank Cassell's plea agreement
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