For Immediate Release Media Contact: Caitlin Cook (304) 543-4879 (Charleston, WV) - Following Congress passing the 2018 farm bill, Kelly Allen, Policy Outreach Coordinator at the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, released the following statement: "The farm bill agreement reached this week and passed by Congress today will help hundreds of thousands of…
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For Immediate Release Media Contact: Caitlin Cook (304) 543-4879 (Charleston, WV) - Following House and Senate leaders' announcement of an agreement on the 2018 farm bill, Kelly Allen, Policy Outreach Coordinator at the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, along with partners, released the following statement: "The farm bill agreement announced this week is…
For Immediate Release Media Contact: Caitlin Cook (304) 543-4879 (Charleston, WV) - West Virginia has one of the largest gender pay gaps in the nation and the highest of all surrounding states, according to a new West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy report released today. The report, Climbing the Mountain: Closing the Gender Pay Gap in West Virginia, shows in 2017,…
For Immediate Release Media Contact: Caitlin Cook (304) 543-4879 (Charleston, WV) - West Virginia's population is increasingly living in urban areas, with those urban areas experiencing all the state's job growth in the past quarter century, leaving rural West Virginia behind in many key areas, according to a report released today from the West Virginia Center on Budget and…
For Immediate Release Media Contacts: Caitlin Cook (304) 543-4879 (Charleston, WV) - The lowest-income West Virginians pay 21 percent more in taxes as a percent of their income compared to the state's wealthiest residents, according to a new study released today by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) and the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. The study, Who…
West Virginia's inadequate public investment in higher education over the last decade has contributed to rising tuition prices, often leaving students with little choice but to take on more debt or give up on their dreams of going to college, according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report released today. The problem is especially serious…
For Immediate Release Media Contacts: Caitlin Cook (304) 543-4879, WVCBP or Jacob Kaufman-Waldron, (202) 325-8746, CBPP (Charleston, WV) - West Virginia’s inadequate public investment in higher education over the last decade has contributed to rising tuition prices, often leaving students with little choice but to take on more debt or give up on their dreams of going to college,…
For Immediate Release Media Contact: Caitlin Cook (304) 543-4879 (Charleston, WV) - More West Virginians lived in poverty in 2017 than in 2016, according to Census data released today. An estimated 336,301 West Virginians lived in poverty in 2017, for a total poverty rate of 19.1 percent, a 1.2 percentage point increase from 2016. West Virginia’s poverty rate in…
For Immediate Release Media Contact: Caitlin Cook (304) 543-4879 (Charleston, WV) - Fewer West Virginians had access to health care in 2017 than in 2016, despite recent health coverage gains in the years following the Affordable Care Act, according Census data released today. It shows 109,000 West Virginians lacked health insurance in 2017, an increase…
For Immediate Release Media Contact: Caitlin Cook (304) 543-4879 (Charleston, WV) - West Virginia can create a more prosperous state if the strength of working families and the policies that support them become a priority. This is according to a West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy report released today that details seven policies to reverse the top-down approach…