The State Journal - A recent analysis by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy indicated that production declines may not translate to employment declines directly. Miner productivity is expected to fall, meaning producing the same levels of coal will take more man-hours. Read "In fact, there may be 10,000 more coal jobs in…
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West Virginia Public News Service - The bad news is that West Virginia has a high rate of unemployed youth not in school. The good news is there are things that can be done about it. Read
A longtime physician with the New River Health Association in Fayette County is asking Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to "take full advantage of the Medicaid expansion opportunity available under the Affordable Care Act of 2010." Read The West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy, based in Charleston, estimates that maximum participation in Medicaid expansion would…
West Virginia Public News Service - During interim legislative meetings this week, state lawmakers will look at voluntary work-sharing. Instead of laying off employees when they need to cut costs, employers could collaborate with the unemployment-insurance system to keep people working at reduced hours. Read Sean O'Leary, a policy analyst with the West Virginia Center…
USA Today - The liberal West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy did a study of how a permanent fund would benefit the state. "I kept thinking to myself, 'We need something like Alaska,'" says executive director Ted Boettner. Read
Charleston Daily Mail - The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities recently released a study showing widening inequality between the richest and poorest residents in each of these United States. Read West Virginia ranked seventh in the nation for the largest growth in "income inequality" over the last several decades. In the mid-2000s, the richest…
USA Today - "Fracking is happening and it's not going to stop, so we have to take the high road of good regulation and taxes so communities are better off, not worse off, after it's done," says Ted Boettner, executive director of the liberal West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read
Sunday Gazette-Mail - Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, said the Patriot announcement is more evidence that the state needs to focus on planning an economic transition as the coal industry declines. Read "The decision highlights the fragility of our state's economy and the urgent need to take…
The income gap between West Virginia's richest and poorest residents has widened dramatically over the past few decades, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. West Virginia had the seventh largest increase in income inequality in the nation between the late 1970s and the mid-2000s,…
West Virginia Public News Service – A new study based on census figures shows the gap between the rich and poor continues to grow quickly. Analysts say it's becoming a serious issue for the economy as a whole. Stuart Frazier, an analyst with the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, says the figures show…