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Once again, West Virginia squandered millions of taxpayer dollars on jobs that never came

In 2019, then-West Virginia Treasurer John Perdue had a problem.  Throughout the 2000s, West Virginia spent nearly $25 million on a controversial program that funneled state money to risky investments. They didn’t pan out, and Perdue wanted to tally up the losses and end the program for good. But when state employees showed up at […]