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 ...
The Justice administration’s economic development team has had a number of hits over the last few years: Nucor Steel in Mason County, Form Energy battery manufacturer in Weirton, Berkshire Hathaway’s renewable energy industrial site in Ravenswood, TIMET titanium metals in Jackson County, ...
by Tom S. Witt As Gov. Jim Justice enters the seventh year of his term, it’s appropriate to start an assessment of the performance of the West Virginia economy during this period. As a reference, the state’s peak non-farm employment was 740,300 in May 2012, which was during Gov. ...
by Mitch Carmichael An indispensable trait that is commonly found to be present in all powerful, dynamic state economies is the opportunity for citizens to succeed and grow across a wide and diverse variety of industries. States firing on all economic cylinders will enjoy new jobs and ...
The recent economic news for West Virginia can be broken into four categories — excellent, good, caution advised and bad. Let’s start with “excellent.” Local and state officials joined with representatives of Nucor Steel to break ground last Friday on a $3.1 billion plant in ...
From the moment Ascend WV — the remote work program offering cash and recreation incentives to out-of-state workers — was revealed, people (including us) asked, “What about West Virginians who want to stay but can’t afford to?” WVU and Marshall seemed to have listened. At the ...