WV Metro News - West Virginia’s Legislature is considering joining a handful of states that have work requirements for people on Medicaid. Read full article. The House Finance Committee took up the issue Wednesday afternoon as a bill originating from the committee, meaning that few observers were up to speed on the ins and outs prior…
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Morgantown Dominion Post, West Virginia Metro News - Sixteen people turned out for an early Tuesday public hearing on three House resolutions to urge Congress to call a convention of states to consider constitutional amendments. Read full article. Ten people supported the amendments, six opposed them. Article V of the U.S. Constitution allows two-thirds of the…
Charleston Gazette-Mail - Is it really a “Future Fund” if there’s no funding in it? Read full article. That was a question Gazette-Mail reporter Ken Ward Jr. asked Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy, earlier this week on our Mountain State Morning podcast. Boettner’s agency had pushed for the…
Charleston Gazette - Is it really a “Future Fund” if there’s no funding in it? Read full editorial. That was a question Gazette-Mail reporter Ken Ward Jr. asked Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy, earlier this week on our Mountain State Morning podcast. Boettner’s agency had pushed for…
Charleston Gazette-Mail - This week on the Charleston Gazette-Mail’s Mountain State Morning, we’re looking at whether senators from Southern West Virginia might act on the region’s water crisis. Also: A look at "Falling Short," a report from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Listen
WOWK - The House chamber was packed for the first hearing, which began at 8 Monday morning. Dozens of educators, parents, administrators and lawmakers all debated both for and against the bill. The biggest concerns remain about school choice and items such as Education Savings Accounts and charter schools. Watch/read. "An aattck on all educators as…
WV News - Experts say West Virginia’s oil and gas industry has failed to live up to economic expectations due to the falling price of natural gas, which has cut into the industry’s profits and under-delivered state tax revenues. Read full article. Although the state has experienced a sixfold increase in natural gas production in the…
Charleston Gazette-Mail - With pipes from hundreds of water systems in the state continuing to crumble beneath residents’ feet as their expiration dates creep closer and closer, the West Virginia Senate is entertaining a bill — the first of its kind to be introduced in the Legislature — to try and tackle one of the…
Huntington Herald-Dispatch - Boss Babes WV, WV Free, and the WV Center on Budget and Policy are partnering this week to host an Unequal Happy Hour to highlight the gender pay gap and to advocate for policies that would close the gap. The event will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb.7 at Sam's…
Parkersburg News and Sentinel - The executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy will discuss the economy in West Virginia at a meeting of the Wood County League of Women Voters 6 p.m. Feb. 25 in the Executive Conference Room on the second floor of the Parkersburg Municipal Building. Read full article.…