Metronews -- Talkline host Hoppy Kercheval considers points made in the West Virginia Center on Budget and Public Policy's recent report, "Money for nothing: Do business subsidies create jobs or leave workers in dire straits?" Read
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MetroNews -- The Executive Director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy says the impact of economic incentives from the state for private companies should be evaluated every year. Read
The State Journal -- A new report from the Pew Center on the States is critical of West Virginia's efforts to track the effectiveness of tax subsidies intended to spur economic development. The results of the report largely echo a call by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy for more measurement of the…
Public News Service -- Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy, says the state is one of the worst for taxing the working poor. Cutting the tax rate for low-wage workers could help struggling families dig themselves out, he says. Read
Public News Service -- One effect of the legal fight has been to delay the law's implementation. In some ways, West Virginia is farther along than many, according to Renate Pore, health policy director with the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read
The Charleston Gazette -- Another study. In the last three years, we've had four of them . . . including the 2012 report from the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy. Read
Martinsburg Journal -- We offered Shell $300 million in tax incentives which would have created what Ted Boettner of the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy called "a virtual tax-free environment." Read
The State Journal -- Ted Boettner, director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, said he did not understand how Muchow calculated a $20 million increase in state tax revenues. Read
The Charleston Gazette -- After studying those proposals, the West Virginia Center for Budget Policy said in a new analysis Thursday that if tax breaks were a major factor, Shell would have chosen an Ohio site. Read
The Charleston Gazette (blog) -- The state's business tax climate had very little to do with Shell's decision to locate in Pennsylvania. Read