The Legislature: Pay Raises

Though Gov. Joe Manchin's teacher pay raise proposal finally reached the Legislature last week, lawmakers continue to ponder alternative bills as well as salary hikes sought by other groups.

These other groups include themselves. The Charleston Daily Mail assesses the impact of a legislative pay raise on the state's main public pension fund.

Teachers groups, meanwhile, are challenging the statistics blitz launched by Team Manchin last week to boost its legislation over the competing bills, as the Register-Herald of Beckley reports.

Corrections officers saw a pay raise bill benefiting them advance in the Senate last week, as The Charleston Gazette relates. Manchin has included money for a $1,000 raise for corrections in his budget, rather than proposing a pay hike bill.