Associated Press (via Charleston Daily Mail) -- A report by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy suggests the state is likely to continue losing coal industry jobs through 2020. Read Also reported in Beckley Register-Herald and Marietta Times and WJAC-TV
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The Charleston Gazette -- Appalachian coal jobs are expected to decline over the next dozen years, but could rebound and even increase after 2020 as mine production stabilizes at lower levels, according to a new analysis by the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy. Read
Charleston Daily Mail -- On Tuesday, lawmakers heard a presentation from the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy that criticized the state for failing to ensure tax credits were being used for their intended purpose. Read
The State Journal -- West Virginia's tax credits — or tax expenditures, as Ted Boettner would prefer they be called — may or may not be a bad thing. Read
The Charleston Gazette -- Ted Boettner, Executive Director of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy, said state and local governments give business tax breaks -- valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars -- every year. But the state doesn't determine whether the incentives are working. Read
Martinsburg Journal -- Analysts at the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy have released a report on the state of our state's workforce. In many ways the situation is bleak. Read
Public News Service -- Ted Boettner, one of the authors of a respected report on West Virginia's workforce, says the state is facing a demographic crisis from an aging workforce, but he also says the state can have a positive impact on its economy by investing in its workers. Read
The State Journal -- The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, an independent nonprofit think tank, says the state should prioritize the creation of a task force to take on the challenges the coalfields communities are certain to face. Read
The Charleston Gazette -- The ability to find jobs -- and the wages and benefits those jobs pay -- continue to pose problems for many people throughout the state of West Virginia. On Saturday, the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy released the latest version of its annual study, "The State of Working West…
Associated Press (via NECN.com) -- A report by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy concludes the state lost 21,300 jobs during the Great Recession and would have to add 27,000 jobs to regain its pre-recession employment rate. Read