According to US Census data, over 16 percent of Virginians now speak a language other than English in the home -- including a growing number of Arabic families. Nahlaa Alsilfih Alahmari and her husband, Abdullah Alahmari, are graduate students from Saudi Arabia. She...
Working From Home On The Rise In Virginia And DC
More Americans are working from home, and that’s especially true in Virginia and in the Washington, D.C., metro area, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Nationally, the proportion of workers who work from home rose from 4.3 percent in 2010 to 5.3...
Black Children More Likely To Live In ‘Concentrated Poverty’
Nearly 100,000 Virginia children live in high-poverty neighborhoods; that figure includes 15 percent of Virginia's African American children, but only 2 percent of the commonwealth's white children. African American children are more than seven times as likely as...
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