Charleston Daily Mail - The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities recently released a study showing widening inequality between the richest and poorest residents in each of these United States. Read West Virginia ranked seventh in the nation for the largest growth in "income inequality" over the last several decades. In the mid-2000s, the richest…
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USA Today - "Fracking is happening and it's not going to stop, so we have to take the high road of good regulation and taxes so communities are better off, not worse off, after it's done," says Ted Boettner, executive director of the liberal West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read
Sunday Gazette-Mail - Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, said the Patriot announcement is more evidence that the state needs to focus on planning an economic transition as the coal industry declines. Read "The decision highlights the fragility of our state's economy and the urgent need to take…
The income gap between West Virginia's richest and poorest residents has widened dramatically over the past few decades, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. West Virginia had the seventh largest increase in income inequality in the nation between the late 1970s and the mid-2000s,…
West Virginia Public News Service – A new study based on census figures shows the gap between the rich and poor continues to grow quickly. Analysts say it's becoming a serious issue for the economy as a whole. Stuart Frazier, an analyst with the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, says the figures show…
Charleston Gazette - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is expected to scrap West Virginia's plans to establish a state-run health insurance exchange, a key component of President Obama's federal health-care law, according to public health advocates and state lawmakers. Tomblin has until Friday to notify the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services whether West Virginia…
The State Journal - A proverb that goes "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is proving true in West Virginia, according to one study. The study released this morning by the Economic Policy Institute and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that West Virginia's poorest residents are seeing a decline…
Huntington Herald-Dispatch - A policy research organization raises some valid points regarding West Virginia's cuts to child-care assistance for lower-income families. The bottom line, according to a new report by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, is that the reductions will jeopardize those residents' ability to keep their jobs or continue their schooling.…
Charleston Gazette - A new report on childcare assistance said West Virginia officials may have made the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program "cost prohibitive" when they raised parents' co-payments for the program in August. Read In West Virginia, TANF provided needed financial assistance to more than 24,000 young children in 2011 whose parents had…
Four of the five major Sunday morning political shows ignored the issue of job creation and economic growth, which economists and voters say are the most important economic issues facing the nation. Instead, the economic discussion on the November 11 editions of these shows focused almost exclusively on the debate over how to achieve deficit…