Beckley Register-Herald - West Virginia still ranks "dead last" in job growth — losing nearly 7,000 jobs — a statistic due in part to the decline of coal jobs in southern West Virginia. At the same time, the increase in the state's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was the third-highest in the nation from 2012-2013, growing…
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West Virginia Public Broadcasting - On West Virginia Morning, a report about a study that explores the health benefits of lower carbon emissions and we'll learn more about a new report released yesterday about economic recovery in the state and the transition from coal to natural gas. Listen
Charleston Gazette - The Affordable Care Act marketplace concept is catching on — in the private sector. ReadA growing number of independent private health-care exchanges are sprouting up around the country, including some in West Virginia.These exchanges operate as online health-care stores where consumers customize their health-care portfolio. Some of the exchanges are run through…
Associated Press, Bluefield Daily Telegraph, The Republic, Wheeling Intelligencer, Gilmer Free Press, WOUB Public Media - A state economic group has calculated that 5,000 jobs have been lost in West Virginia since 2011, most of them in the state's southern coalfields. Read The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy on Tuesday released its annual…
West Virginia Public News Service - West Virginia's economy is still weak, and much of the energy-extraction growth has shifted north, according to the annual State of Working West Virginia report. Read The southern coalfields continue to experience declining production, said Ted Boetner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, who…
Charleston Gazette - The recent recession may have ended, but West Virginia workers aren't better off than they were before, according to the annual "State of Working West Virginia" report from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read The center released its 2014 report Tuesday, exploring the state's economic recovery and shifting energy…
Charleston Gazette - The Rockefeller Foundation, known as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, announced its plans this week to withdraw all its investments in fossil fuel companies, in an effort to improve the environment. ReadA day before Tuesday's U.N. Climate Summit began in New York City, the $860 million philanthropic group announced that it is joining…
Charleston Daily Mail - More West Virginians continue to live in poverty, according to new U.S. Census data released this morning. ReadAbout 18.5 percent of West Virginians lived below the poverty line in 2013, according to the American Community Survey created by the U.S. Census. That's an increase from the 17.8 percent figure recorded in…
West Virginia Public Broadcasting - Data released Thursday by the U. S. Census Bureau shows the percentage of West Virginians living in poverty stayed consistent last year, but the number of children living below the poverty line has grown. ListenCredit West Virginia Center on Budget and PolicyAccording to the 2013 American Community Survey, one in…
The State Journal - About 33 percent of West Virginia's young children are living below the poverty level, officials said. ReadAccording to new survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 332,000 West Virginians lived in poverty in 2013, with nearly 100,000 of those children.The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy says while the…