MetroNews - Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled its tax overhaul bill Thursday, which includes decreasing the number of personal income tax brackets, cutting the corporate tax rate and the eventual elimination of the estate tax. Read.
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Charleston Gazette-Mail - West Virginia residents who apply for welfare now are subject to a drug screening, state health officials announced Monday. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - Cleaning out some notepads...Lost amidst interim meetings and the special session, the Tax Foundation, a right-leaning, pro-business organization, put out its annual Business Tax Climate Index, ranking West Virginia as having the 19th best tax climate. Read.
PolitiFact, Charleston Gazette-Mail - The Democratic senator from West Virginia — where the opioid overdose death rate ranked highest in the nation in 2015 — connected the state's opioid use with its battered workforce. Read.
MetroNews - Moody's, one of the big three bond rating agencies, is giving a thumbs up to voter approval of West Virginia's $1.6 billion road bond issue. Read.
Huntington Herald-Dispatch - Only about half of West Virginia adults are working these days, and a quarter of those who do have jobs don't make much money. Read.
Clarksburg Exponent Telegram - Although many states have experienced significant decreases in the percentage of their populations who are living in poverty in recent years, West Virginia's poverty level remain largely unchanged, experts say. Read.
Huntington Herald-Dispatch - West Virginia has always been known as a place where people have to work incredibly hard in order to barely get by. Read.
Parkersburg News and Sentinel - A 2018 budget resolution that sets up tax reforms for the president was adopted Thursday in the House of Representatives with two of the three Republicans from West Virginia voting in favor. Read.
EcoWatch - It was supposed to be all about jobs. Read.