Hoppy Kercheval
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West Virginia's Mixed Report on Poverty - WV MetroNews (opens the original)
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The U.S. Census Bureau has released new figures on poverty in America, and for West Virginia the findings are mixed. I’ll get to those numbers shortly, but first here is some context: The data come from the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics. The agencies look at poverty two ways: The official poverty figure looks at pretax income. The supplemental poverty measure includes cash income as well as government benefits and geographic differences in housing costs. The state-by-state figures
Remembering 9/11 - WV MetroNews (opens the original)
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(Editor’s note: This is an updated version of a commentary I posted several years ago around the anniversary of 9/11.) Has it really been 25 years since the September 11 attacks? Consider this: Nearly half the U.S. population—45 percent—was either not yet born or too young to remember when the World Trade Center towers burned and collapsed, when a hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon, and when Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Perhaps for them, and for those who come after th
West Virginia Remains Trump Country, But He is Losing Support Among Independents - WV MetroNews (opens the original)
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Polls across the political spectrum continue to show a steady decline in Donald Trump’s approval rating. For example, a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll put the president’s approval rating at 33 percent, down 14 points from the start of his second term. Not all polls have his numbers that low. However, a Cook Political Report aggregate of polls has Trump’s approval rating at 38.5 percent, while 59.4 percent disapprove. Still, there are a few states where a majority of voters remain solidly behind Trump
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