CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — A report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics shows that in May of this year, 717,000 jobs were held within the state, but a year ago that number was more than 725,000. Executive director for the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy Kelly Allen said elections could be a reason why.

West Virginia v. B.P.J. will only be the third West Virginia case to be heard in the Supreme Court in the last 100 years.

The United States Supreme Court will hear the case of a challenge to West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act, according to West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear West Virginia v. B.P.J., which will decide if the state’s Save Women’s Sports Act and similar laws across the country are constitutional.

West Virginia on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to hear a case against a state law barring transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s school sports teams, citing the high court’s recent