The State Journal and WVNSTV.com -- In a policy memo comparing fossil fuel taxation in West Virginia with Wyoming, the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy found a big gap between the two states, and within the Mountain State, a gap between two industries. Read
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The Tennessean -- Only a tiny amount of coal is produced in Tennessee — less than 0.1 percent of the country's coal, according to a report, Coal and Renewables in Central Appalachia, by Downstream Strategies and West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy. Read
Williamson Daily News -- "This is why we need the Affordable Care Act," said Renate Pore, Health Policy Director with West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. "It will give employers and employees more affordable health insurance options beginning in 2014 and it will help entrepreneurs and small business owners." Read
Martinsburg Journal -- WVCBP's O'Leary argues that the cost to the state and localities of providing the tax breaks is not trivial because the facility will create additional need for public services. Meanwhile, he says there is little evidence that tax breaks play a significant role in determining where businesses locate. Read
The Herald-Dispatch -- Confirmation that the current legislative session is on the right track with its efforts to confront the problem of overcrowded state prisons and regional jails came in a report last week from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy that echoes the need for alternative sentencing options. Read
Public News Service -- West Virginia's prison system is in crisis, but the authors of a new report say they can offer lawmakers a way out. Read
HuntingtonNews.net -- A new report titled "Stemming the Tide: The Racial and Economic Impacts of West Virginia's Prison System", co-released today by the Partnership for African American Churches, the American Friends Service Committee, and the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read
The State Journal -- The issue of prison over crowding can't be solved by building more facilities, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Friends Service Committee, the Partnership of African American Churches and the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy. Read
Associated Press, Charleston Gazette, Charleston Daily Mail and Reported at NECN.com -- As West Virginia lawmakers grapple with overcrowding in prisons and regional jails, a new report says the state should invest more in alternative sentencing options that keep lawbreakers out of the penal institutions in the first place. Read
Public News Service -- The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy estimates that a one percent severance tax on gas and coal would yield $5.7 billion dollars over the next 23 years. Read