WVCBP in the News

Public News Service - According to the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, West Virginia does a terrible job tracking and evaluating the tax breaks intended to spark job growth. Read

Charleston Daily Mail -- The consulting firm that helped Gestamp negotiate the deal has said the value of the incentives "could eclipse an estimated $55 million." Analyst Sean O'Leary of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy has estimated the incentives are worth $84.4 million. Read

Charleston Daily Mail -- "It's all a shift, unless you want to cut back massively on local services beyond education," said Ted Boettner, Executive Director of the liberal West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read

The Charleston Gazette -- Earlier this year, the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy looked closely at the models Energy Department officials use to forecast future coal production trends. Read

Agence Global - The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, for example, has proposed a small increase in taxes on coal and natural gas, to be funneled into a Future Fund for educational and infrastructure projects to help build a new economy. Ted Boettner, executive director of the center, notes that other energy states…

The State Journal -- "Lower-income families and lower-income individuals, like a single mother who doesn't have a lot of money, are the people going without the insurance simply on the basis that they can't afford it," said Stuart Frazier, Policy Analyst with the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read

Martinsburg Journal -- Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, pointed out to members of a joint House-Senate economic development interim committee earlier this month in Charleston that whether these tax credits valued in millions of dollars are fulfilling that goal is never determined. Read

Herald Dispatch - West Virginia legislators -- usually at the request of other state officials -- regularly provide business tax breaks to companies in an effort to provide more job opportunities for state residents. Unfortunately, however, information about the effectiveness of these tax breaks in terms of the number of new jobs created by each…

Media Matters -- An analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the nonpartisan West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy found that U.S. coal mining employment is much higher today than it was over the last decade." Read

Charleston Daily Mail -- The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy emphasized the child poverty rates included in the survey data. Read