Today is the LAST DAY the House Finance Committee could run SB 292, which would improve birthing outcomes for West Virginians on Medicaid and PEIA. There is NO excuse not to get this bill across the finish line.

Said it before, say it again Every time the governor says we have a lot of water for data centers it makes me sick. We don't have drinking water for some of our most vulnerable WVians We have water when it floods, which the state doesn't address via resiliency or mitigation

We are tracking the impacts of federal funding cuts and DOGE in West Virginia. Through the first 100 days, we estimate DOGE cuts have cost West Virginia at least $220 million, often through rescinding or terminating Congress-passed funding. wvpolicy.org/tracking-doge-…

Medicaid is essential for the Mountain State, with 1 in 3 West Virginians relying on the program.  Congress is currently considering cuts that would shift costs onto states, families, and providers—putting coverage and care at risk. We can’t let that happen.

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If you’re in WV and curious about where your local government spent its opioid settlement funds last year, I made a searchable table you can use to see! The full table is at the end of this article, which also includes a breakdown of all spending. Enjoy! westvirginiawatch.com/2025/07/24/fro…

Tax breaks should not be allowed for companies who pay workers so little that they are forced to rely on food stamps.

If Congress fails to extend tax credits that help people afford health coverage on the market, 60k WVians will see huge cost increases come Jan 1. Even if they are extended, increased red tape + cuts to enrollment assistance programs will take a toll. The latest from Rhonda Rogombé

Do you rely on Medicaid in West Virginia? Here's what to know about how the changes will affect you in the coming years: mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/08/27/med…

Rural hospitals often scrap labor and delivery services after mergers, study finds West Virginia has one of the nation’s highest percentage of hospitals without obstetrics in 2022. newsfromthestates.com/article/rural-…

HR 1 takes away health care & food assistance & raises costs for nearly all of us—while handing giant tax cuts to the wealthy. And with WV among the states slated to be hardest hit by program cuts, it’s our communities who will pay the price. westvirginiawatch.com/2025/09/17/att…

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Forget ‘no tax on tips’—increasing the minimum wage would deliver dramatically larger raises for millions more workers without letting employers off the hook epi.org/blog/increase-…

With 2026 ACA plans officially live, we can now see the impact of Congress' failure to extend enhanced premium tax credits. A 64 YO couple in Morgantown with household income of $85k will see their premiums for the same plan increase by over $4,000 *per month*

Private equity is literally killing us.

An elected official punching down on the very people he serves during Thanksgiving week? Groundbreaking. Here’s an empathetic, evidence-based response to a literal garbage take. Enjoy! lootpress.com/op-ed-medicaid…

Morrisey calls for additional 10% tax cut, saying it will address affordability issues. As I wrote Saturday, for a household income of $50,000, that will amount to savings of about $160 a year.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

In 2024, 46.8% of children in WV were covered by Medicaid. Counties ranged from 27.1% in Jefferson to 84.3% in McDowell.

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