West Virginia cash-for-worker program welcomes new residents

6/26/2022

A program offering $20,000 in cash and incentives for remote workers to move to West Virginia as part of a population push has chosen 33 people for its second class of newcomers and is now taking applications for a third host region, officials announced Tuesday.

Tourism officials said the public-private program received more than 3,600 applications for the latest round in the Greenbrier Valley, about the same number as there are residents in the laid-back southeastern community of Lewisburg.

The applicants recently selected for the Greenbrier Valley are from 19 U.S. states, including as far away as California. The average annual income of those selected is about $125,000. The applicants will be bringing family members for a total of 61 new residents.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/west-virginia-cash-for-worker-program-welcomes-new-residents/2022/06/14/b3733af4-ebf2-11ec-9f90-79df1fb28296_story.html

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