This collection consists of work contracts between formerly enslaved individuals and employers enacted during the operation of the Freedmen’s Bureau. On March 3, 1865, the federal government created The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands using the Freedmen's Bureau Bill. Also known as the "Freedmen's Bureau," this agency was responsible for aiding refugees of the Civil War, especially formerly enslaved people in the areas of education, employment, and health care. Meant to last for only one year after the war, the Bureau was largely operational from June 1865 to December 1868, and officially abolished in 1872. Local offices of the Freedmen's Bureau assisted in drawing up contracts between formerly enslaved people and employers. These contracts were meant to ensure that the formerly enslaved were accorded fair and legal work contracts that included precise terms of employment. However because many formerly enslaved people were forced to enter into arrangements with former enslavers, arrangements could be largely ignored or abused. They eventually morphed into sharecropping and debt peonage. Contracts usually specify the dates of the expected employment, the occupation of the employee, expected wages and housing arrangements, and any rent that was to be paid to the employer. These records were generated by the federal government and therefore many are housed in the National Archives, however a few localities retained possession of these records in their courthouses after the dissolution of the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1872.

Descriptions included in this dataset are drawn directly from the original documents and may contain language which is now deemed offensive.

This dataset lists Hunger Action Coalition (HAC) Member Organizations.

This dataset is an export from Opportunity Insights Economic Tracker ( https://www.tracktherecovery.org/)

The data in this dataset was last updated September 17, 2020. More current data is available at the project's GitHub repository: https://github.com/OpportunityInsights/EconomicTracker

From the Web site: The Opportunity Insights Economic Tracker (https://tracktherecovery.org) combines anonymized data from leading private companies – from credit card processors to payroll firms – to provide a real-time picture of indicators such as employment rates, consumer spending, and job postings across counties, industries, and income groups.

All of the data displayed on the Economic Tracker can be downloaded here. In collaboration with our data partners, we are making this data freely available in order to assist in efforts to inform the public, policymakers, and researchers about the real-time state of the economy and the effects of COVID-19.

Anyone is welcome to use this data; we simply we ask that you attribute our work by citing or linking to the accompanying paper and the Economic Tracker at https://tracktherecovery.org.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This provisional data is being provided as VDH OEMS continues to improve its data systems. The data on this page will continue to change throughout the data system improvement process and will stabilize over time. Thank you for your patience.

This dataset contains Emergency Medical Services (EMS) information for reported emergency response incidents that involve a substance or have suspected substance involvement. Data in this dataset has been provided by ESO on behalf of the Office of EMS.

Please be advised that the accuracy of the data within the EMS patient care reporting system is limited by system performance and the accuracy of data submissions received from EMS agencies. While each record in this dataset is for a single patient involved in an incident reported by an EMS agency, unique patients may be counted more than once in the dataset (e.g., if a patient was treated by two EMS agencies, that patient may be counted in the dataset twice). This data should not be interpreted as the number of unique substance use incidents reported by Virginia EMS agencies.

For instances where medication was administered to the patient, the response to the medication is provided, if reported by the EMS agency (e.g., if a patient received "naloxone" and the response of the patient for this administration of naloxone was reported as "Improved", then the record will show "naloxone with Improved response"). In instances where multiple medications were administered to the patient, the administrations and their associated responses are provided as a pipe-delimited list in the order that the patient received the medications.

This dataset has been classified as a Tier 0 asset by the Commonwealth Data Trust. Tier 0 classifies a data resource as information that is neither sensitive nor proprietary, and intended for public access.

This data set includes the cumulative (total) number of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) cases and deaths in Virginia by report date. This data set was first published on May 24, 2020. When you download the data set, the dates will be sorted in ascending order, meaning that the earliest date will be at the top. To see data for the most recent date, please scroll down to the bottom of the data set. The Virginia Department of Health’s Thomas Jefferson Health District (TJHD) will be renamed to Blue Ridge Health District (BRHD), effective January 2021. More information about this change can be found here: https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/blue-ridge/name-change/

Section P of Item 115 of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, 2022 Special Session I, commonly known as the Budget Bill, establishes that the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) may publish only anonymized versions of the map, showing locations served and unserved by broadband without reference to any specific provider. For the purposes of this statewide broadband map, the definition of 'broadband' means internet access at speeds equal to or greater than the broadband internet speed benchmark set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC's current definition of broadband, set in February 2015, establishes the speed threshold at which internet service is considered broadband at 25 megabits per second (Mbps) for downloads and 3 Mbps for uploads. In accordance with this reference and definition, DHCD has released the shapefile below which provides those locations unserved by broadband at this speed threshold.

This data set includes the cumulative (total) number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths for each locality in Virginia by report date. This data set was first published on April 01, 2020. When you download the data set, the dates will be sorted in ascending order, meaning that the earliest date will be at the top. To see data for the most recent date, please scroll down to the bottom of the data set.

As of 5/18/2023 this dataset will be updated weekly on Tuesdays with a weekly granularity.

This dataset includes the VA health planning region, sewershed (i.e., wastewater treatment facility service area), sample collection date, start of sample collection week (Sunday-Saturday), sample type, sample matrix, detection, population served by sewershed, daily flow associated with collected sample, viral concentration in sample, calculated viral load in sample, and report date. This dataset was first published on 5/18/2023. The data set increases in size weekly and as a result, the dataset may take longer to update; however, it is expected to be available by 12:00 noon. When you download the data set, the sewersheds will be sorted in ascending alphabetical order by health region. The sample collection dates will be sorted in ascending order, meaning that the earliest date will be at the top. The most recent date will be at the bottom of each sewershed’s data.

Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD): Workplace Area Characteristics (WAC)

2015-2019 Workplace Area Characteristics (WAC) for Virginia.

LEHD makes available several data products that may be used to research and characterize workforce dynamics for specific groups. Learn more about this data at https://lehd.ces.census.gov/

Processing steps: Files downloaded from https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lodes/LODES7/va/wac/ and merged into a single file for all years of interest, for all job types, and all segments of the workforce. See technical document for more details on original file structure https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lodes/LODES7/LODESTechDoc7.5.pdf.