The Martinsville area, a manufacturinging powerhouse as recently as the 1980s, has become the poster child for Virginia’s rust belt. Unemployment hit 20% during the bottom […]
Thomas Jefferson Institute Staff
Virginia needs to improve its accountability system for K–12 education. A relic of the No Child Left Behind era, it has a critical flaw: It […]
With the election over and Republicans keeping control of Congress while also securing the White House, our nation has an opportunity to finally fix our […]
(This is part IX of this series on energy. We hope it helps the reader better understand the issues facing our country and our state […]
Do increased cigarette taxes at the municipal level increase revenues to localities? And what is the longer term effect of such increases? A new study […]
This chart, published by Hamilton Lombard on the StatChat blog, shows how the working-age population of the United States has begun shrinking in much of […]