Daily Athenaeum - McDowell County has a rich history of coal mining. The southernmost county in West Virginia paints the picture of coal's impact upon the state. In the early 1950s ,the county had a population of more than 100,000 and was the largest coal producer in the world. Read During the subsequent decades, as…
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Charleston Gazette - While West Virginia has reduced the number of seniors living in poverty, child poverty is a growing problem, according to a report released by two organizations Tuesday. Read The state's senior poverty rate fell from 39.2 percent in 1969 to just more than 10 percent today, the report stated. It was released…
West Virginia Public News Service - West Virginia - and the United States as a whole - have dramatically reduced poverty among seniors, and a growing movement says it's time for the state to do the same for children. Read Census figures say the portion of West Virginia seniors living below the poverty line has…
Charleston Daily Mail - Without its persistently high rate of child poverty, West Virginia could reduce other nagging societal problems like the rates of divorce, obesity, addiction and teen pregnancy. Read That's the premise of a new report from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy and the West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families…
Charleston Gazette - Charleston Mayor Danny Jones said this morning that he wants to eliminate and reduce some business and occupation taxes in the city, and raise sales taxes to renovate the Charleston Civic Center. Read
Charleston Gazette - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Wednesday night promised to keep fighting tougher federal regulation of the coal industry, touted continued growth of the state's natural gas business, and said he would spare West Virginia's mine safety agency the budget cuts hitting other sectors of state government. Read But in a speech heavy…
Charleston Gazette - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's office won't cut child-care assistance after all, the governor said Wednesday in his State of the State address. Read Tomblin said he is proposing $17 million to preserve the state's child- care subsidies program. Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, said Tomblin…
The State Journal - State lawmakers will get another go at a bill designed to cushion the blow of up and downs in the state's energy economy. Read The Future Fund is a concept that has been promoted in the Legislature for the past several years. The idea is to take funds from increased activity…
Labor economists predict that in five years nearly half the jobs in West Virginia will require education and training beyond high school, but a state education official said a high school diploma today is already not enough to fill high-skilled jobs. Read
West Virginia Public News Service - According to Sean O'Leary, a policy analyst with the West Virginia Center On Budget and Policy, the state has closed one big loophole that had allowed companies to hide profits in other states. But he says it's hard to confirm how much the state loses to offshore tax havens,…