Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report, Williamson Daily News, The Eagle, WOAY-TV - New federal data show 319,063 West Virginians living below the poverty line last year, a 17.9 percent rate unchanged from the year before and slightly lower than a measured peak in 2011. Read.
WVCBP in the News
Beckley Register-Herald - Data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the number of West Virginians without health insurance was reduced in 2016. Read.
West Virginia Public Broadcasting - Data released Tuesday by the United States Census Bureau shows the Affordable Care Act continues to reduce the number of West Virginians without health insurance. Read.
Record Delta - There is a movement growing in West Virginia, a people-powered movement. On Sept. 29 and 30, Upshur County Indivisible-Votes will host the West Virginia Grassroots Summit at the Event Center at Brushy Fork in Buckhannon. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - With everything going on, you could be forgiven for losing track of some of things at stake in President Donald Trump's proposed budget. It would be terrible for working people, in general, and West Virginia, in particular. Read.
Parkersburg News and Sentinel - The meeting may not have been intentioned to become church, but those attending the "Compassion Calls Us" meeting got a dose of it anyway. Read.
Beckley Register-Herald - About 23 percent of the state's workforce works in low-wage jobs, according to a report released Friday from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read.
Beckley Register-Herald - As you read this, people are struggling across our country, trying to find their way forward. And we're not talking only about our friends in Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey that dumped copious amounts of rain on southeastern Texas or the good people of Florida who stand in the way…
WDTV News 5 - A local organization hosted a town hall Saturday afternoon to discuss the recent proposed changes in the federal budget. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - When Congress returns to Washington this month, it is possible that lawmakers may be distracted by the people's needs -- emergency funding for Houston and Louisiana, raising the debt ceiling, things like that. But it is likely that the House will take up the Cassidy-Graham amendment, the next assault on health care…