Jul 12
Health

New Prescription: Ohio Valley Native Dr. Patrice Harris Is First Black Woman To Lead AMA

By Aaron Payne

Minimum Wage Hike Would Have Major Effect In Ohio Valley

Economy

A new report from the Congressional Budget Office shows increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would boost the wages of 17 million workers and lift about 1.3 million people out of poverty. But the CBO warns that could also result in more than one million lost jobs and could diminish overall income […]

By Becca Schimmel

New Data Show Opioid Deaths May Have Peaked, And Reveal Scale Of Past Pain Pill Sales

Health

Two newly released sets of government data show that the death toll from the nation’s opioid crisis may finally be dropping and also reveal the scale of the pain pill sales that help set the crisis in motion. The data for the Ohio Valley show how hard the region was hit and how hard people […]

By Aaron Payne

“Death Spiral.” How A Carbon Tax Could End Some Coal Towns … Or Fund A New Future

Economy

Declining coal tax revenues place coal-reliant counties in Appalachia at risk of fiscal collapse, according to new research from the centrist Brookings Institution and Columbia University. Policies designed to prevent further climate change would accelerate that decline, the report found, but could also provide a new stream of revenue to help communities rebound from coal’s […]

By Sydney Boles
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