Author: Liz Newton & Zack Schwehm

Fact-check: Does West Virginia have the Nation’s Fourth-worst Poverty Rate?

In a Nov. 8 op-ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Democratic state Sen. Mike Romano expressed concern about the state of the West Virginia economy. “Our poverty rate, which has not declined since the Great Recession, was 19.1 percent, the fourth-highest in the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau,” Romano wrote. Are […]

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Fact-check: Does West Virginia have the Nation’s Fourth-worst Poverty Rate?

In a Nov. 8 op-ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Democratic state Sen. Mike Romano expressed concern about the state of the West Virginia economy. “Our poverty rate, which has not declined since the Great Recession, was 19.1 percent, the fourth-highest in the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau,” Romano wrote. Are […]

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