WVCBP in the News

The Charleston Gazette -- "West Virginia and other mineral-rich Appalachian states would be smart to follow the lead of Western energy states that had the foresight to create a permanent severance tax trust fund, or a Future Fund," said Ted Boettner executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read

The Charleston Gazette -- "... n 10 years southern West Virginia could be producing almost one-third the coal it produced in 2009," the state Center on Budget and Policy observed. Loss of two-thirds of coal employment would inflict severe hardship on a region already hurt by mine layoffs. Read

The Charleston Gazette -- West Virginia lawmakers were told Monday to start planning now for a senior citizen population expected to add about 150,000 people by 2035, while the number of working-age adults declines. "This will have enormous implications for West Virginians," said Renate Pore, health policy analyst for the Center for Budget and Policy.…

The Charleston Gazette -- In West Virginia, employment in non-agricultural jobs fell for the fifth straight month, as 1,200 more jobs disappeared in June. Manufacturing, education and health services saw no employment increases last month, according to "Jobs Count," a monthly newsletter published by the West Virginia Center of Budget & Policy. Read

The Charleston Gazette -- "West Virginia has the least to lose economically by extending Bush tax cuts to millionaires," said Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy. Read

The Charleston Gazette -- A report released Wednesday from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy argues that employees in the mining and construction industries who use "work sharing," a program that allows employers who need to reduce payroll costs temporarily to reduce the hours their employers work, would better weather cyclical downturns in…

The Charleston Gazette -- In a recent commentary, Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, proposes the state create a Future Fund, or a permanent mineral trust fund fed by severance taxes on the state's mineral wealth. Read

Beckley Register-Herald -- "We have a chance to do better in the 21st century with natural resources than we did in the 20th century, and make it a more permanent source of wealth so every generation will benefit from what we have here and what's leaving here," says Paul Miller of the West Virginia Center…

The State Journal -- According to a recent posting by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, coal mining employment has declined 1.5 percent over the last six months, but remains 11 percent higher than prior to the recession. Read

Charleston Daily Mail -- Ted Boettner, executive director of the liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy, said the state was pulling the rug from under single mothers at the same time it was sitting on its rainy day fund and cutting taxes. Read