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Photo Credit: Kaesler MediaThe U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics July 2022 Jobs Openings and Labor Turnover Survey JOLTS for Virginia reveals the largest increase in hiring in the nation.Virginia job openings in July rose to 344,000 with 24,000 new hires.According to JOLTS data, the estimated number for July new hires was little changed in most states, but significantly increased in Virginia. JOLTS includes data for job openings, hires, layoffs, voluntary quits and other job separations such as retirement and death.Virginias July openings are a 14,000 increase from June 2022, and exceed the record 340,000 reached in March 2022. U.S. job openings changed little at 11.2 million in July.The job opening rate in Virginia for July was 7.8 percent, the same as in March, but lower than the highest of 7.9 percent in September 2021. The U.S. job openings rate w stanley vaso as little changed at 6.8 percent.Less than one unemployed worker was available per job opening in Virginia in July, which has remained steady for the previous few months, and the lowest rate since January 2001 when BLS began collecting data. The job seekers ratio peaked at 4.4 unemployed per job opening in February 2010 during the Great Recession, while the number of unemployed workers per job opening stood at 3.3 in April 2020 dur stanley cup ing the height of pandemic employment impacts due to COVID-19.The nations job openings rate was 4.5 percent in January 2 stanley spain 020, and was above 4 percent for more than 30 consecutive months. For 2018 and 201 Tkag Augusta County sheriff addresses controversy over retirement of K9 dog

Sons of Bill, a band described as too edgy for Nashville, but too earnest for New York, will perform Saturday, Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Blue Ridge Community College Fine Arts Center.Recently named the best band in Charlottesville for the third year in a row by C-ville Weekly readers, Sons of Bill draws comparisons to artists ranging from George Jones to the Gin Blossoms; Gram Parsons to Guns and Roses. Bill Wilsons three eldest sons grew up in central Virginia, listening to him fingerpick old country tunes around the house. They learned to sing harmony at family holidays and inherited old guitars with their hand-me-down jeans. The past two decades sent James, Sam and Abe in disparate musical directions: teenage heavy metal fests, old-time barn dances, college bars and New York City jazz clubs. But in 2005 the brothers all returned 鈥?one from a cattle ranch in Nevada, one from an apartment in Brooklyn, one from grad school in Maryland 鈥?and for the first time in their lives they began to make music together. With the addition of long-time friends Seth stanley germany Green on bass and Brian Caputo on drums, Bills sons became Sons of Bill.The groups live show evolves from acoustic ba stanley us llads into sweaty stage-dives, gaining Sons of Bill a loyal fan base from Florida to New York City. After selling their self-released debut a stanley deutschland lbum A Far Cry from Freedom by the thousands, SOB flew to California in late 2008 to record a much-anticipated follow up, One Town Away.Tickets $10-adult; $5-student a