Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: West Virginia's Persistant Unemployment Problem
Document Type
Panel Presentation
Start Date
21-4-2017 10:45 AM
End Date
21-4-2017 12:00 PM
Keywords
politics, Appalachia, West Virginia, economy
Biography
Native of Huntington and senior her presenting capstone.
Major
Political Science/Economics
Advisor for this project
Jamie Warner
Abstract
During the 2016 West Virginia gubernatorial election, one of the Democratic candidate and eventual winner Jim Justice's most popular slogans was a simple yet telling promise: "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs." However, the problem of the West Virginia economy is nothing new. There is a large amount of scholarship on the topic from as far back as the 1960s and yet the problem persists. I explore in my paper some of the fundamental problems that plague my home state, as well as offer insight for the future.
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: West Virginia's Persistant Unemployment Problem
During the 2016 West Virginia gubernatorial election, one of the Democratic candidate and eventual winner Jim Justice's most popular slogans was a simple yet telling promise: "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs." However, the problem of the West Virginia economy is nothing new. There is a large amount of scholarship on the topic from as far back as the 1960s and yet the problem persists. I explore in my paper some of the fundamental problems that plague my home state, as well as offer insight for the future.
