HINTON — In Hinton, West Virginia, women with the town’s Reachh — Family Resource Center spent Monday afternoon boxing up ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WCHS) — A West Virginia woman joined several others at the White House on Wednesday calling for attention to poverty in America. Pam Garrison, a member of the West Virginia Poor ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A new study shows more students are living in poverty now compared to students almost a decade ago. The nonprofit EdBuild analyzed U.S. Census estimates to determine an increase ...

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 ...