WSAZ-TV - Patterson studied the issue along with representatives from two other organizations -- the West Virginia Center on Policy and Budget, and the American Friends Service Committee. They reported their findings to legislators and suggested other ways to deal with nonviolent and low-risk offenders. Read
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The Intelligencer, Wheeling News Register -- The Center on Budget and Policy did more than focus on the demographics. It suggested action to anticipate change. Read
WV Public Broadcasting -- Boettner has been working along side other organizations to promote the idea of establishing a permanent mineral trust fund in West Virginia, similar to what six other states have done. Read
Charleston Daily Mail -- I strongly applaud Sen. Joe Manchin for standing up this week for working families in West Virginia by voting to continue tax cuts for the middle class, end those that benefit only the richest 2 percent of taxpayers, and protect critical tax relief for thousands of West Virginia's low-income working families.…
The Charleston Gazette -- "West Virginia and other mineral-rich Appalachian states would be smart to follow the lead of Western energy states that had the foresight to create a permanent severance tax trust fund, or a Future Fund," said Ted Boettner executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read
The Charleston Gazette -- "... n 10 years southern West Virginia could be producing almost one-third the coal it produced in 2009," the state Center on Budget and Policy observed. Loss of two-thirds of coal employment would inflict severe hardship on a region already hurt by mine layoffs. Read
The Charleston Gazette -- West Virginia lawmakers were told Monday to start planning now for a senior citizen population expected to add about 150,000 people by 2035, while the number of working-age adults declines. "This will have enormous implications for West Virginians," said Renate Pore, health policy analyst for the Center for Budget and Policy.…
The Charleston Gazette -- In West Virginia, employment in non-agricultural jobs fell for the fifth straight month, as 1,200 more jobs disappeared in June. Manufacturing, education and health services saw no employment increases last month, according to "Jobs Count," a monthly newsletter published by the West Virginia Center of Budget & Policy. Read
The Charleston Gazette -- "West Virginia has the least to lose economically by extending Bush tax cuts to millionaires," said Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy. Read
The Charleston Gazette -- A report released Wednesday from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy argues that employees in the mining and construction industries who use "work sharing," a program that allows employers who need to reduce payroll costs temporarily to reduce the hours their employers work, would better weather cyclical downturns in…