Keya Vakil

After weeks of backlash from lawmakers, the Trump administration has reversed its earlier decision to shut down nine Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers, including the Flatwoods Job Corps Center in Coeburn, Virginia. The reversal will spare dozens of jobs in Coeburn and preserve the $6 million in economic activity that Flatwoods creates each year in…

Nearly 350,000 Virginia taxpayers who are eligible for a one-time tax return this year need to file their returns by July 1 to qualify for the payment. Individuals will receive $110 while married couples will get $220, but only if they file by July 1. The one-time payment, which is separate from regular tax refunds,…

Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all of today’s Virginia news coming right up. And if you’re a fan, please forward to three friends who need to know what’s going on in the Commonwealth and tell them to subscribe here.  But First… Virginia’s first self-driving shuttle is set to launch in Fairfax County in late…

Today marks Juneteenth, an annual celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States in 1865. If you’re wondering why it took more than two years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation for slaves to be free, it’s because that proclamation applied only to enslaved people in Union territory. It wasn’t until April…

Virginia, like most of America, has a racial inequity problem, and in many cases, this inequity disproportionately affects women.

The ERA is only twenty four words long, but those twenty four words aim to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters.

72% of Virginians believe abortion should be legal; Virginia’s laws just don’t represent that quiet majority yet.

Women in Virginia make 79 cents for every dollar paid to a man, a difference that adds up to nearly $12,000 per year.

The lack of competitive teacher pay in Virginia is particularly harmful for women, who comprise 79% of the teaching force in the state.

In 2017, 59% of the 70,000 workers earning the minimum wage or less in Virginia were women.