West Virginia MetroNews - Senators are advancing a bill that would expand requirements for work or employment training for able-bodied adults without dependents for benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Read the full article. The bill also extends the age range for people affected to 59. The age range for current procedures is from…
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Breaking Latest - The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the United States is set to add new eligibility requirements that could put more than 75,000 people, including children, at risk of losing their food stamps. Read the full article. In West Virginia, a bill proposed by local legislators on the issue is under review. Caitlin Cook,…
Mountain State Spotlight, Beckley Register-Herald - The lack of a disease or a death is a success that’s hard to celebrate, even though it provides people with the health to live life freely. West Virginia’s high childhood vaccination rate is one of these successes. Read the full article. The state, unlike 45 others, requires children in…
Spark Chronicles, World Nation News - The SNAP program will add new eligibility requirements. More than 70,000 people are at risk of losing food stamps. Read the full article. The U.S.’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program is implementing new changes to eligibility requirements. If all projected changes are implemented, more than 75,000 people, including…
Charleston Gazette-Mail - As if West Virginia’s legislative GOP supermajority had relocated to the island of Dr. Moreau and set up shop in subterranean laboratories, it has concocted a zoo full of educational systems. Read the full op-ed. Among their results are micro-schools, pod schools, home schools and other species they assure us will lead…
West Virginia Public Broadcasting - On this episode of The Legislature Today, higher demand for coal and natural gas, as well as higher prices, produced a severance tax windfall for the state over the past few years. But prices have fallen, and with it, tax revenues. Listen to the full segment. To get a better idea…
Mountain State Spotlight - Up to a quarter of the 300,000 West Virginians enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are at risk of losing the benefits they need to feed themselves and their families, if a new bill introduced by lawmakers comes to pass. Read the full article. “The way it is written, it’s taking away…
West Virginia Watch - The Senate will consider a bill that backs elementary teachers’ decision to remove violent or threatening students. The legislation could cost cash-strapped school districts, which would be on the hook for creating alternative learning environments for removed students. Read the full article. Senate Education Chair Amy Grady, a public school teacher…
New York Times - John Chambers grew up in West Virginia and went on to run what was once the world’s most valuable company, the computer networking firm Cisco Systems Inc. Now he is trying to help economically lagging West Virginia by making it a “start-up state” akin to Israel, which has been called the start-up nation.…
Times West Virginian, West Virginia Press, Spirit of Jefferson - West Virginia is the place to do business. That’s the message lawmakers have been keen to spread as the state pursues policies and initiatives designed to encourage businesses to come to the Mountain State. Read the full article. Collectively, the effort is called Choose West…