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.
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PBS News Hour - More than one third of residents in McDowell County, West Virginia are below the poverty line, and many of them only have access to dental work when the pain becomes unbearable. Read.
The Record Delta - One in seven West Virginians and one in five West Virginia children struggle with hunger. The Food for All Hunger Summit gathered Tuesday at the Event Center at Brushy Fork to try to come up with a plan to fight hunger in West Virginia. Read.
Beckley Register-Herald - As an increasing number of young people turn away from the rural counties of southern West Virginia, it is not difficult to identify the factors at play. A recent report by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy shows rural West Virginians have poorer health, lower educational attainment levels, lower wages,…
Christian Science Monitor - When public school teachers in West Virginia heard last winter that their health insurance premiums would skyrocket, Brianne Solomon wasn’t sure anything could be done about it. Educators like her were grumbling, to be sure, but their union’s clout in this right-to-work state was questionable. Read.
WOWK-TV - Sean O'Leary, of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, talks to Mark Curtis about a new report that shows there's room improve West Virginia's upside-down tax system. Watch here.
WV News, Daily Antheneum - WVU has the highest rates of student loan default in the Big 12, and 725 graduates from the Class of 2012 have defaulted on their loans over the last four years. Read.
Forbes - When Alexis de Tocqueville started traveling across the United States in 1831, he was taken aback by the powers granted to the people. But he quickly concluded that such freedoms are fragile — that they are put at risk by the powerful who are positioned to manipulate the economically feeble. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - Nobody paid more to fund GOP Senate President Mitch Carmichael’s public relations campaign on the 2018 teacher and school service personnel strike than West Virginia’s largest coal producer. Read.
West Virginia Public Broadcasting - As the 2018 midterm election approaches, some West Virginia Senate Republican leaders are making use of a large and influential worldwide public relations firm to aid in messaging about this year’s teacher strike and the economy. Read.