Mountain State Spotlight - West Virginia lawmakers are moving forward with a bill eliminating work permits for 14 and 15-year olds, despite concerns about what the change will mean for minors. Read the full article. The House of Delegates voted 83-16 Tuesday to pass HB 5159, legislation that would eliminate youth work permits. These documents currently…
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Mountain State Spotlight - In Logan County, an outdoor theater production got $7,000 for new lights. In Kenova, $21,150 went towards paving the library’s parking lot. In the Eastern Panhandle, Berkeley County received around $150,000 for park and baseball field improvements. And just 10 miles from the Capitol, the Kanawha County Commission will use $1…
Mountain State Spotlight - West Virginia lawmakers are moving forward a bill to change the work requirements for food stamps. The bill expands work requirements to older adults — able-bodied people between age 53 and 59 — and will likely affect thousands of West Virginians. But changes to the bill removed able-bodied adults with dependents from the…
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…
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…