The State Journal - Thirty years isn't a very long time for a state that just turned 150, but it could be long enough to diversify West Virginia's economy. Read The Union of Concerned Scientists, West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy and the West Virginia Community Development Hub hosted people from the political, environmental,…
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Charleston Gazette - Community organizers, business boosters, labor officials and religious leaders joined Wednesday to try to jumpstart what they said are long-overdue discussions -- and actions -- to diversify the economy of West Virginia's coalfields. Read A variety of speakers and audience members from nonprofit organizers, government agencies, academia and the private sector said…
Huntington Herald-Dispatch and The Republic - Politicians, policymakers and others will share their visions for West Virginia 30 years from now and discuss the need for economic diversification at a Wednesday forum in Charleston. Read The Union of Concerned Scientists is teaming up with the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy and others to…
Charleston Gazette - State Senate President Jeff Kessler on Tuesday kicked off a forum on diversifying West Virginia's economy with a push to create a "future fund" that would set aside tax dollars from the Marcellus Shale natural gas boom for improving education, infrastructure and economic development. Read
West Virginia Metro News - What will West Virginia look like in 30-years? That's the question public, private and civic leaders tackled during a conference in Charleston Tuesday and Wednesday. Read "Bridging People and Policy" held at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences was all about talking about the future and what can…
Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Danbury News Times - Politicians, policymakers and others will share their visions for West Virginia 30 years from now and discuss the need for economic diversification at a forum in Charleston. Read The Union of Concerned Scientists is teaming up with the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy and…
Charleston Daily Mail - There's precious little optimism in most discussions about West Virginia's economic future. Read Jeremy Richardson, a fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C., hopes to change that with his event "A Bright Economic Future for the Mountain State," coming to the Clay Center this week. Richardson, who grew…
Beckley Register-Herald - A steady decline of manufacturing jobs, from the steel mills of Wheeling to the blackened skies of once coal-rich southern counties, has fueled an erosion of the middle class in West Virginia, an exhaustive study shows. Read In the sixth edition of a special report, this one titled "From Wheeling Steel to…
Parkersburg News and Sentinel - The Union of Concerned Scientists will hold a forum on West Virginia's economic future Tuesday and Wednesday at the Clay Center in Charleston. Read Called "A Bright Economic Future for the Mountain State," the form will include state leaders who will discuss their visions for West Virginia in 30 years…
Charleston Gazette - The collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s and the resulting losses in manufacturing and mining have left West Virginians with fewer good-paying jobs and wages lagging behind the national average, according to a new report from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read The sixth annual The State…