Charleston Gazette-Mail - Even with an upswing in state tax collections, representatives of the House and Senate Finance Committees conceded Friday it will be difficult to stretch the 2019-20 state budget to fund all the proposed new initiatives. Read article. That includes Gov. Jim Justice’s pledge for another 5 percent pay increase for teachers, school service…
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Beckley Register-Herald - With an unusually frothy head of news coming out of our nation’s capital these past couple of weeks, concerning even for an administration defined by constant chaos, and with fortunes falling fast on Wall Street as the overall economy sits on a perilous perch overlooking an anticipated slowdown in 2019, the buzz…
WOWK TV - Charleston's Manna Meal is in need of volunteers this season. This as the state's poverty numbers continue to increase, according to the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read.
WOWK-TV - Over 340-thousand West Virginians use federally funded SNAP benefits to feed their families. In some cases able-bodied adults with no dependents must work or volunteer 20 hours per week, to get their food card. The multi-billion dollar farm bill that just passed Congress was originally intending to increase work requirements to keep SNAP…
Parkersburg News and Sentinel - With Republican leaders in the West Virginia Senate talking about their plans for the next legislative session starting Jan. 9, Senate Democrats unveiled their priorities for the new year. Read.
WBOY TV - West Virginia advocacy groups gathered in Morgantown at 123 Pleasant Street for an Unequal Happy Hour. The event highlighted a West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy report that shows the Mountain State has one of the highest gender pay gaps in the nation and suggests policies to help close the gap.…
West Virginia Public News Service - Why do so many places rich in natural resources, like West Virginia, end up so poor? Read. Ted Boettner, executive director at the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, has been researching what's known as the "Resource Curse." He's found most states and countries focused on mining and…
Beckley Register-Herald - Loretta Young, a chairperson of the Poor People’s Campaign in West Virginia, says her group wants “to change the moral narrative in this country” – and given the economic conditions on the most basic levels of day-to-day, hand-to-mouth survival that we see here throughout the southern reaches of West Virginia, such a…
Parkersburg News and Sentinel - A total of 63 organizations, programs and agencies were recognized Friday by the Sisters Health Foundation for their work this past year to complete projects and programs for which they received funding from the SHF. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - We commend the Justice administration’s policy move to collect online sales tax staring January 1, 2019. For far too long, our small businesses throughout the Mountain State’s main streets have been on unequal ground and our municipalities have been missing out on revenue they could invest back in their communities. Read.