Trump’s deep public broadcasting cuts will hurt his rural, low-income voters most
“West Virginia Public Broadcasting is already planning a 20% cut — laying off 15 staff members — after West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said, in the interest of budget cuts, the state had little choice but to eliminate its support for public media. A loss of more than $200,000 in federal funding to the station could force further layoffs. These are but a fraction of the more than 19,500 people working in public media nationwide who would potentially face layoffs if CPB funding was cut.”