Parkersburg News and Sentinel - The governor Wednesday signed a bill eliminating the cabinet level Department of the Arts and Education. Read.
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Governing - Gov. Jim Justice signed a bill into law Tuesday that will impose work requirements on certain adults receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Read.
State Journal - As members of a 29-person task force set up by Gov. Jim Justice to solve funding problems for the Public Employees Insurance Agency go about their discussions, observers from around the state are weighing in on what might be done to fix PEIA. Read.
State Journal - If there’s one thing insurance experts, government officials, public employees and policy wonks can agree on, it’s that fixing the state’s Public Employees Insurance Agency won’t be easy. Read.
Charleston Gazette - We praised the Legislature for getting the West Virginia budget done by the end of the regular 60-day session, which was fair as far as it goes. No one wanted (or wanted to pay for) the special session marathon like last year. Read.
Rantt Media - After nine days of striking, teachers in West Virginia finally got what they wanted: a modest five percent pay raise and a guarantee that their health insurance premiums would not go up. Read.
Rewire - At a town hall with West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) in Wheeling, West Virginia, on February 27, sixth-grader Gideon Titus-Glover pointed out that the governor’s plans to increase the state’s tourism budget was a conflict of interest. Read.
State Journal - A recent study by an Illinois-based public policy institute suggests prevailing wage laws help improve income disparities between white and minority construction workers. Read.
Charleston Gazette - A while back, the Justice administration was pursuing work requirements as a condition for getting Medicaid. After discovering the facts and economics of how Medicaid works, the governor and his people wisely put that proposal aside and moved on to other priorities. Read.
HuffPost - Jessica Jernegan joined her fellow teachers to rally at the Oklahoma state Capitol in 2014 and demand more funding for schools. Despite the pleas of an estimated 25,000 protesters, the Republican-dominated legislature had other priorities in mind. Read.