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Report: It may take Virginia years to recover from pandemic December 21, 2020 GMT NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A new report from Old Dominion University says that it will likely take years for the state of Virginia to achieve a complete economic recovery from the devastating coronavirus pandemic. The project comes from the 2020 State of the Commonwealth Report from ODU’s Strome College of Business. The report, released Sunday, said the pandemic ended a record of 11 straight quarters of economic growth and wiped out nearly a decade of job gains. The state had added half a million jobs between Fe...

The report also found that Black and Hispanic students are more negatively impacted by remote schooling.

Photo: WINA NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A new report from Old Dominion University says that it will likely take years for the state of Virginia to achieve a complete economic recovery from the devastating coronavirus pandemic. The project comes from the 2020 State of the Commonwealth Report from ODU’s Strome College of Business. The report said the pandemic ended a record of 11 straight quarters of economic growth and wiped out nearly a decade of job gains. Virginia had added half a million jobs between February 2010 and February of 2020. But by April 2020, about 438,000 jobs in Virginia were te...