W.Va. State Hiring Drops

At a time when West Virginia agencies hire around 200 full-time workers, the state has added just 43 permanent jobs to its payroll in the last month, MetroNews reports.

MetroNews cites Gov. Joe Manchin's directive to cabinet secretaries early that month that "hiring would be restricted for the last three months of the fiscal year."

"The full-time hires made since the restrictions were announced were mainly for state-run health care facilities, prisons and jails," MetroNews reports. "The state did hire 224 temporary employees since the announcement and most of them, 182, were for seasonal jobs through the Division of Natural Resources."