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West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
Charleston, West Virginia ·The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy is a policy research organization that is nonpartisan, nonprofit, and statewide. The Center’s research and analysis is designed to support informed public dialog and policy in West Virginia.
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Murray-Kaine Proposal Would Protect and Improve Child Care For Thousands of West Virginia Working Families
- June 1, 2022
- West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
- Kelly Allen
With temporary federal funding to help families afford child care ending soon, US Senators Patty Murray and Tim Kaine have proposed an increase in child care funding for all states that would […]
Best Practices for Local and State Prioritization of American Rescue Plan Act Funds
- May 1, 2021
- West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
- Kelly Allen
Under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), states, cities, counties, U.S. territories, and tribal nations will receive a total of $350 billion in Fiscal Recovery Funds to respond to the […]
State of Working West Virginia 2020: The State of Racial Inequality
- November 3, 2020
- West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
- Sean O'Leary
In 1967, Black Americans marched, protested, and even rioted as decades of systemic racism and oppression came to a head. In response, President Lyndon Johnson established the Kerner Commission, which […]
The State of Working West Virginia 2019: The State of WV’s Immigrants
- December 21, 2019
- West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
- Sean O'Leary
West Virginia’s immigrants come from all over the world and while a small share of the populations, they are broadly represented throughout the state’s workforce and economy. Read PDF of report. […]
State of Rural West Virginia
- October 23, 2018
- West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
- Sean O'Leary, Rick Wilson, and Ted Boettner
West Virginia’s population is increasingly living in urban areas, with those urban areas experiencing all the state’s job growth in the past quarter century, leaving rural West Virginia behind in […]
Closing the Gender Pay Gap in West Virginia
- September 4, 2018
- Staff
In 2016, West Virginia women earned just 72 cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts. The median earnings of full-time male workers were $12,801 higher than the median […]
State of Working West Virginia 2016
- December 12, 2016
- West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
- Ted Boettner and Sean O'Leary
A persistent question for those who pondered West Virginia’s fate is a simple: why, in a state rich in natural resources, are West Virginians so poor? For more than a […]
High Road WIOA: Building Higher Job Quality into Workforce Development
- December 17, 2015
- Keystone Research Center
- Stephen Herzenberg
In response to the federal Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA), most states are now in the latter stages of developing federally required plans and policies for operating their systems […]
State of Working West Virginia 2015
- November 9, 2015
- West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
- Sean O'Leary and Ted Boettner
This report is the eighth in an annual series that examines the state of West Virginia’s economy. While previous editions examined data on employment, income, productivity, job quality and other […]
Fast Facts: “Right-to-Work” Won’t Boost West Virginia’s Economy
- July 16, 2015
- West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
- Ted Boettner
“Right-to-Work” laws do not guarantee jobs for workers. Instead they prohibit unions and employers from including a provision in contracts that requires employees who benefit from union representation to pay […]