CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice stated Thursday that social providers employees will obtain a 15% pay improve by tapping funds from current vacant positions after such efforts failed within the Legislature.
About 970 staff of the Division of Well being and Human Assets’ Bureau for Social Companies will obtain the raises beginning June 18.
There are greater than 6,500 kids within the care of the state. In accordance with the DHHR, there’s a 30% emptiness fee statewide for foster care staff.
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“I instructed you we’d get this finished and we received it finished with out spending any extra cash,” the Republican governor stated in an announcement. “I all the time say we have to thoughts the shop and we’ve finished it the appropriate manner. Consequently, we’re now capable of compensate these folks which might be doing unbelievable work.”
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Worker pay raises and different key provisions had been stripped from a social providers invoice earlier than it died on the ultimate day of the common legislative session in March. After the pay raises had been gutted, DHHR Secretary Invoice Crouch instructed a Senate committee that the division would cut back the variety of open positions to offer the much-needed raises to little one protecting providers staff.
Crouch stated Thursday these vacant positions certainly funded the raises.
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“We did take current positions in DHHR. We swept these. We are going to take away these,” he stated. “We’ve needed to do some juggling to get this finished. However once more, the governor was adamant that we do it.”
As well as, Justice introduced {that a} dashboard with some foster care information collected by the state shall be made accessible to the general public on the DHHR’s web site beginning June 1. That dashboard additionally was minimize from the invoice by lawmakers.
Advocates have stated having the info accessible might assist each policymakers and nonprofit teams whereas holding residents knowledgeable. For instance, it would embody data on Little one Protecting Service placements, referrals and case workloads, Justice stated. The dashboard shall be up to date month-to-month.
“It is a manner for people to see what is going on on with the state in regard to our CPS program and ensuring we maintain kids protected,” Crouch stated.
The state is also within the midst of a hiring a guide to evaluation the huge DHHR, which has a $7.6 billion finances, or 39% of the state’s whole spending. In late March, Justice vetoed a invoice that may have break up the DHHR into separate companies, saying he first wished to look into its “points, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies.”
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The West Virginia Mountaineers picked up another commitment in the 2025 recruiting class Monday evening, securing a pledge from offensive lineman Jahmir Davis (6’6″, 305 lbs) out of LaSalle High School in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Davis also held an offer from Marshall and interest from Iowa State and Illinois.
Davis took a visit to Morgantown over the weekend and with his announcement, he became the 22nd recruit to commit to WVU this cycle, and the fourth offensive lineman to do so, joining Amir Leonard-Jean Charles, Gavin Crawford, and Eidan Buchanan.
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For just a half second, things were starting to look a little hairy for the West Virginia Mountaineers and their chances of reaching a bowl game. Over the weekend, they took care of the visiting UCF Knights to collect that key sixth win of the season, punching their ticket to a bowl game.
Now the question is, where will the Mountaineers land?
With just one game remaining in the regular season, WVU can’t really increase its bowl stock all that much. Right now, it’s more about not falling further down the totem pole.
While it is extremely unlikely, there is still a “path” for the Mountaineers to the College Football Playoff, believe it or not. And no, it doesn’t have anything to do with having five quality losses. That’s sarcasm, by the way. WVU can still make the Big 12 title game but needs several unlikely upsets to happen in the final week of the regular season. If the unthinkable happens and WVU gets to Arlington and wins the Big 12 title, boom. The Mountaineers are in the CFP at 8-5.
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On the more realistic side of things, West Virginia will likely end up at either the Independence Bowl, Liberty Bowl, Armed Forces Bowl, or First Responder Bowl. For a team that had legit aspirations of making the College Football Playoff at the start of the year, landing at one of the aforementioned destinations is quite the disappointment, with all due respect to those bowls.
Nonetheless, the Mountaineers still have an opportunity to finish the year with a 6-3 mark in Big 12 play for the second straight year with a win over Texas Tech on Saturday.
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Michigan State football appears to be closing in on their newest commitment in the 2025 recruiting class, looking to flip a prospect committed to another power conference school.
Terrance ‘Deuce’ Edwards is a defensive back prospect committed to West Virginia. A high 3-star prospect, Edwards is the cousin of former MSU wide receiver Felton Davis. He is from Richmond, Virginia.
After an official visit to see the Spartans defeat Purdue on Friday night, the Spartans seem to be in pole position to flip the West Virginia commit, receiving crystal ball predictions from the 247Sports staff.
At 6-foot-1 and 180 pounds, Edwards is someone that can play both outside cornerback and in the nickel position.
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Be on the lookout for movement in this recruitment in the coming days.
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