The Charleston Gazette -- During a speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Jay Rockefeller showed genuine leadership and courage in telling the truth about the real challenges facing coal in West Virginia. Read
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Last week, the Legislature provided a one-year relief to county governments by freezing the current regional jail per diem at $48.25, rather than allowing it to increase as scheduled to reflect the true daily cost of jail incarceration, nearly $55. Our new blog post explains why this temporary relief is simply a band-aid fix for county budgets…
WCHS-TV - One group is trying to combat the fact that more children are living in poverty. Read A coalition led by families, congregations, businesses, advocates and unions are gathering at the West Virginia Capitol trying to find strategies to fight the issue. Three in 10 West Virginia children under age 6 live in poverty…
Charleston Gazette -Â We praised the Legislature for getting the West Virginia budget done by the end of the regular 60-day session, which was fair as far as it goes. No one wanted (or wanted to pay for) the special session marathon like last year. Read.Â
State Journal - If there’s one thing insurance experts, government officials, public employees and policy wonks can agree on, it’s that fixing the state’s Public Employees Insurance Agency won’t be easy. Read.Â
Tax Justice Blog - This week, important transportation funding debates finally concluded with gas tax updates in Indiana, Montana, and Tennessee, and appear to be nearing an end in South Carolina. Read.
Recent research by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy examined a promising approach for reducing the retirement gap among workers in the Mountain State. Read
Charleston Gazette-Mail - In West Virginia today, there is a heist being planned in broad daylight. Read.
This post was co-authored by Myya Helm, 2021 Summer Research Associate Last week, the Legislature provided a one-year relief to county governments by freezing the current regional jail per diem at $48.25, rather than allowing it to increase as scheduled to reflect the true daily cost of jail incarceration, nearly $55. In addition to the…
Charleston Gazette-Mail - We commend the Justice administration’s policy move to collect online sales tax staring January 1, 2019. For far too long, our small businesses throughout the Mountain State’s main streets have been on unequal ground and our municipalities have been missing out on revenue they could invest back in their communities. Read.