How Tax Reform Should Include Our Working Families This week at the conclusion of the standing-room-only Our Children Our Future Policy Summit, a diverse coalition of organizations that cares about kids, families, seniors and working people, presented basic principles of fair taxation. Surrounded by student advocates and allies, leaders from labor, faith-based, and community action…
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Join Us Right After the OCOF Policy Summit Right after the wrap-up of the Our Children Our Future Policy Summit, join us in the Governor's Conference Room (inside the Secretary of State's office) on September 15 at 12:30 PM for the release of the report, "Tax Reform That Protects Roads, Children and Seniors." A diverse…
No Matter Where They Live, Women In Unions Earn More To commemorate Women's Equality Day and the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, this week the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) released a new report on women in unions. The report found that women in unions…
Tax Overhaul Committee Looks at Tax Credits The legislature's Tax Reform Committee met again this week, this time to discuss the state's wide range of tax credits and their effect on economic development. An important tax credit in place in 26 other states is the Earned Income Tax Credit which is modeled after, and augments,…
Swift Reaction to Clean Power Plan Reaction to President Obama's Clean Power Plan, which calls for a decrease in carbon emissions in order to combat climate change, came quickly this week, as reported in the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Many policymakers in West Virginia are threatening legal action in what they see as an attack on the…
Medicaid at 50 Helping More West Virginians Live Healthier Lives Medicaid provides health coverage that helps low-income seniors, children and people with disabilities get needed health care. It provides parents and other adults economic security through health coverage that protect them from medical debt and allows them to stay healthy and work. It is jointly…
The Fast Fast Facts on "Right to Work" Check out our second edition of Fast Facts. This issue explains the real meaning of "Right to Work" and its broken promise of economic growth in states that have adopted it. It's a policy that could actually lower wages in West Virginia which already has a median…
Check Out Fast Facts! This summer we are launching a series of short publications to present the facts on issues of the day. Our premiere issue of Fast Facts is about the ongoing debate on the state's prevailing wage. This quick read will give you everything you need to know on this important issue impacting…
Congress Must Save Tax Credits that Help Veteran and Military Families Congress has a chance this year to save key provisions of pro-work tax credits that help 15,000 veteran and military families make ends meet. This Fourth of July, let's honor our veterans and men and women in uniform by making sure these tax credits…
This Father's Day: Helping Working Fathers Two working-family tax credits, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC), are powerful tools for reducing children's poverty and helping families put food on the table, while boosting the local economy. About 13 million fathers in low- and moderate-income working families received either the EITC…