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January 12, 2023

Advocates: Proposed Budget for W.Va. Doesn’t Go Far Enough

Associated Press, CBS News, WCHS, Telegraph, Herald-Standard– West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s budget proposal doesn’t go far enough to support the most vulnerable and marginalized residents in one of the nation’s poorest states, advocates said Thursday.

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Prevent Child Abuse West Virginia Director Jim McKay said it was poignant to him that the Republican governor called his plan to cut the state’s personal income tax by 50 percent over three years a “West Virginia tsunami” during his State of the State address Wednesday.

“The reality is tsunamis are not great things, right?” McKay said, speaking at a press briefing at the state Capitol. “Tsunamis leave a path of destruction.”

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