West Virginia Public News Service - West Virginia's prevailing wage should be determined using in-state surveys instead of federal estimates, according to some contractors. The wage law was changed this spring. ReadRepublican lawmakers say the state should now use Bureau of Labor Statistics figures to determine how much to pay construction workers on public projects.…
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Charleston Gazette - At least 13 companies in West Virginia pay reduced or possibly no property taxes because of a program in which the West Virginia Economic Development Authority purchases property and leases the land, buildings or equipment back to the businesses. ReadAccording to accounting records, the EDA owns more than $103 million in property…
West Virginia Public Broadcasting - Should the government require wages over a certain level for taxpayer-funded construction projects? ListenIn West Virginia, some Republicans want to repeal the prevailing wage law altogether - like Laurie Lin of our podcast, "The Front Porch"In her Charleston Daily Mail column, she writes that the prevailing wage benefits a small…
Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram - Most state residents are aware officials in Charleston have struggled to balance the budget the past three years. ReadBut as West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy analyst Sean O'Leary pointed out recently to Staff Writer Jeremiah Shelor, it could have been much worse. O'Leary and others have correctly pointed out that…
Charleston Gazette - About 150 people turned out to talk about steps to take to promote racial equality at an event on Charleston's East End Tuesday evening. ReadFarajii Muhammed, a community organizer from Baltimore, urged taking peaceful action, after he described violent protests he witnessed at home.Muhammed is the youth empowerment program director for the…
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Gives $430,000 to WV Center on Budget and Policy to Continue Policy Research
The State Journal - To continue its policy research and analysis work on racial equity and poverty issues in the Mountain State, the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy received financial help from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan. The Center's West Virginia State Fiscal Analysis Initiative project will be funded with…
Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram - West Virginia was one natural gas boom away from facing the same kind of shortfall that had Kansas's state government struggling to balance its budget earlier this month. ReadThat's according to Sean O'Leary, a fiscal policy analyst with the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy.West Virginia's government has experienced a budget…
The State Journal - At a time when policymakers in West Virginia are making critical choices for higher education funding, a new report shows many states already have done the same. ReadA map of federal and state relationships in higher education funding bring up three key points: levels of funding coming from the federal government…
KTVZ.com, Enews Park Forest - As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau considers new rules to rein in predatory practices in payday and similar types of lending, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and 31 Senate colleagues expressed support Thursday for the agency's first steps and urged the strongest possible rules to combat the "cascade of devastating financial…
West Virginia Press Association - The WV Center on Budget and Policy is hosting economic development training. ReadAccording to the WVCBP, the goal of the June 12 meeting is to "help progressives win on important economic issues facing West Virginia working families."Fiscal policy analyst Sean O'Leary, who has worked for over five years on tax…