Charleston Gazette - Stuart Frazier, a policy analyst for the non-profit West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, reports that most people qualify for the credit only for a couple years before they move on to better-paying jobs. But during that time, the credit can put an average of another $2,000 a year into the…
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AP, Charleston Gazette, WCHS-TV and WTRF-TV - The director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy says he's eager to serve on a federal panel charged with encouraging financial transparency in extractive industries such as natural gas. Read Ted Boettner tells The State Journal the U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative will hold its…
The State Journal - The leader of a West Virginia think tank on budget and policy will serve on a federal initiative encouraging financial transparency in the gas industry. Read Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, was appointed to a position on the U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative,…
Charleston Gazette - Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., began a weeklong tour of West Virginia on Tuesday to discuss the federal debt and what it means to the next generation of Americans. Read Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, said part of the reason workforce participation is low is…
The State Journal - With the West Virginia legislative session just on the horizon, one of the most certain changes that will affect every West Virginian will be the governor's budget. Read The governor's staff takes great steps toward putting together line-by-line how the government will spend its money. The non-governmental organization West Virginia Center…
Charleston Gazette - For the 10th month in a row, West Virginia suffered job losses, according to the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read Nonfarm employment fell by 900 jobs in November. The construction industry, which was the hardest hit, lost 1,200 in one month.
Charleston Gazette - Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, said, "With looming cuts to child care and higher education, it makes no sense not to modernize our sales tax and treat all businesses, small and large, the same." Read
West Virginia Public Radio - The looming fiscal cliff deadline is the focus of talks in Washington, but those potential tax increases and budget cuts could hit many West Virginia working class families hard. Executive Director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy Ted Boettner explains the impact to our state. Read
Charleston Daily Mail - Secretary Keith Burdette defended the state's use of tax credits to attract businesses to the state before lawmakers Wednesday. Read Speaking to a joint meeting of the Legislature's Joint Commission on Economic Development and Joint Committee on Finance, Burdette criticized a recent New York Times report for creating a "woefully inaccurate…
The State Journal - Despite hand wringing over the future of the coal industry, a West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy analysis projects relatively stable severance tax collections. The analysis was written by Sean O'Leary, an analyst with the nonprofit think tank. Read The decline of coal, O'Leary wrote in a report posted Tuesday,…