Americans uniformly believe that workers deserve a basic standard of living free from employer exploitation. All states and ...

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - According to U.S. Census Bureau data, child poverty is on the rise in West Virginia. In 2023, 20.1% of all children in the mountain state lived below the poverty line. In ...

“Lower income people have much less of a cushion, much less flexibility. Lower income people can really feel a much harder ...

WHEELING, W.Va. — West Virginia consistently ranks as one of the five poorest states in the U.S. -- and one local nonprofit is looking to help lower that statistic. Catholic Charities West Virginia ...

In 2021, West Virginia experienced a poverty rate of 16.8% thereby becoming one of the states with the highest poverty in the US. Child poverty was especially high in the state while the Black and the ...

West Virginia was first inhabited by the Paleo-Indians. Life was not easy. The climate was much colder then and people hunted mastodon and musk ox to survive. Now, 12,500 years later, West Virginia is ...