West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy

Publications

• State of Working West Virginia: Women’s Paid and Unpaid Labor

  • October 18, 2024
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  State of Working X

• West Virginia Matches Up Well With Neighbors on Tax Rates, Falls Short on Funding Schools and Child Care

  • August 9, 2024
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Kelly Allen
  Budges and Taxes Family Economic Security

• Solving Child Care Requires Strong Public Investment

  • August 1, 2024
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Kelly Allen
  Family Economic Security

• Efforts to Cut Unemployment Based on False Premise

  • March 6, 2024
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Sean O'Leary
  Unemployment Insurance

• HB 5159 and HB 5162 Weaken Child Labor Protections, Increase Risk of Dangerous Work

  • March 4, 2024
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Kelly Allen
  Unemployment Insurance

• Final 2025 Budget Makes Deep Cuts to Medicaid; Fails to Meet Important Needs

  • March 1, 2024
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Sean O'Leary, Rhonda Rogombé, Kelly Allen
  Budges and Taxes Healthcare

• Senate Changes, Passes Bill To Reduce Unemployment Benefits

  • February 28, 2024
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Briana Heaney
  Unemployment Insurance

• Indexing Unemployment Benefits Would Harm Small, Rural Counties in West Virginia

  • February 27, 2024
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Sean O'Leary
  Unemployment Insurance

• WEST VIRGINIA CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY FACT SHEET HB 5276 Would Reduce Unemployment Benefits by Nearly a Quarter and Further Erode Them Over Time

  • February 1, 2024
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Sean O'Leary
  Unemployment Insurance

• West Virginia’s Job Growth Not Broadly Shared

  • January 9, 2024
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Sean O'Leary
  Economic Development

• Hope Scholarship Reduces Resources for Public Schools, Lacks Necessary Oversight

  • December 1, 2023
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Kelly Allen, Sean O'Leary
  Public Services, Budgets, and Economic Development

• Can’t Survive on $7.25: Higher Minimum Wages for Working Wisconsins

  • October 1, 2023
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Pablo Aquiles-Sanchez, Laura Dresser
  Minimum Wage Wages, Labor Standards, and Job Quality

• State of Working West Virginia: The State Of West Virginia’s Unemployed And Those Outside The Labor Force

  • September 27, 2023
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Sean O'Leary
  State of Working X

• Checking in on West Virginia’s Economy

  • September 7, 2023
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Sean O'Leary
  Wages, Labor Standards, and Job Quality

• Special Session Pay Raises Excluded Some of DCR’s Most Crucial Staff

  • August 16, 2023
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Teri Castle
  Budges and Taxes

• Moving Upstream: Improving Child Welfare in West Virginia Requires Addressing Root Causes of Hardship

  • August 1, 2023
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Veronica Witikko, Kelly Allen
  Family Economic Security

• Enacted PEIA Legislation Will Have Multi-year Impacts on Enrollees and State Budget

  • May 3, 2023
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Kelly Allen
  Budges and Taxes

• West Virginia’s Job Mismatch

  • April 25, 2023
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Sean O'Leary
  Unemployment Insurance

• How Tax Cuts for the Rich Trumped Public Investments: The West Virginia Fiscal Year 2024 Budget

  • April 18, 2023
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Sean O'Leary
  Budges and Taxes

• State of Working West Virginia 2022: A Lost Decade and a Path Forward

  • December 1, 2022
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  State of Working X

• “Closest to the Problem”: A Vision for Reentry from the People Who Live It

  • November 1, 2022
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  Criminal Legal System

• Murray-Kaine Proposal Would Protect and Improve Child Care For Thousands of West Virginia Working Families

  • June 1, 2022
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  • 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 […]

  Care Economy

• 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 […]

  Economic Development

• 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 […]

  EARN in the South State of Working X Worker, Racial, and Gender Justice

• 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. […]

  Immigration State of Working X

• 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 […]

  Economic Development Education Income Inequality Jobs Wages

• 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 […]

  Jobs State of Working X

• 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 […]

  Jobs State of Working X

• 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 […]

  Jobs Manufacturing So-Called "Right-to-Work" Unions and Worker Power

• State of Working West Virginia 2014: Economic Recovery and Transition in the Mountain State

  • September 30, 2014
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Ted Boettner and Sean O'Leary

  This report is the seventh in an annual series that examines the state of West Virginia’s economy as it impacts working people. Each year, we examine the latest available data […]

  Jobs State of Working X

• Keeping Families Healthy: West Virginia Earned Sick Days and Family Medical Leave

  • July 28, 2014
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Sean O'Leary and Ted Boettner

  On July 24, 2014, the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, West Virginia FREE and the Service Employees International Union presented “Keeping Families Healthy: West Virginia Earned Sick Days […]

  Paid Sick, Family, and Medical Leave

• Giving West Virginia’s Workers a Raise: Increasing the State Minimum Wage

  • October 2, 2013
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Sean O'Leary

  On April 14, 2013, the West Virginia House adopted HCR 107, expressing support for President Obama’s proposal to increase the minimum wage to $9.00 an hour and index it to […]

  Minimum Wage Wages

• State of Working West Virginia 2013: From Weirton Steel to Wal-Mart

  • August 31, 2013
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Sean O'Leary and Ted Boettner

  This edition of The State of Working West Virginia is the sixth of its kind. Each year since 2008 this report has examined the numbers and trends that tell the […]

  Jobs Manufacturing State of Working X

• State of Working West Virginia 2012 — In Depth: The Gas Boom and Coal Bust

  • September 1, 2012
  • West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
  • Sean O'Leary and Ted Boettner

  While the state slowly recovers from the Great Recession, struggles remain. There is only one job opening for every four people looking for work, the state has the lowest workforce […]

  Jobs State of Working X