WV Department of Health and Human Resources The above map shows counties ranked by vulnerability to overdose mortality from all drugs. Dark red indicates the highest vulnerability to overdose deaths while light green indicates the lowest. Data from this map comes from 2017, the last time a ...
by Andrew Moss American workers made great strides in 2023. Autoworkers, UPS drivers, Kaiser health workers, screenwriters and actors all scored significant gains in earnings and benefits as a result of their respective unions taking tough, assertive stances in strikes and other forms ...
by Michael G. Long Sixty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream turned the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom into a near-religious revival. King’s speech remains so emotionally powerful that we remember little else about that historic march and rally. That’s a ...
With all this talk of surpluses, tax cuts and where money should go, we’d like to draw attention to another of West Virginia’s chronically underfunded services: state jobs. In mid-September, analysts presented the results of a state audit to the Legislature’s Post Audits ...
In the last week or so, Gov. Jim Justice has repeatedly talked about implementing a $500 back-to-work bonus, which is supposed to be matched by the employer for a total of $1,000, and suspending the $300-per-week federal unemployment benefit. We’re of two minds on this particular ...