Three years ago, the state started an ambitious program, West Virginia Wheels, to lease used cars to thousands of welfare recipients so they could get to jobs. But West Virginia's poorest citizens didn't get the safe, reliable vehicles the state had promised. Instead, many people wound up with dangerous clunkers while used car dealers made millions. What went wrong? Find out more in "Taken for a Ride," an ongoing Gazette investigation.
December 28, 2003
Taken for a ride: West Virginia's welfare car program
Paul Nusbaum says he was shocked when he first discovered how much West Virginia was spending on ...
December 23, 2003
Agency had no license to sell cars; taxes might have been avoided
Vehicle transactions are now being scrutinized by investigators as part of a statewide probe int ...
December 23, 2003
Wheels probe welcome
BY the time it was over, the state spent $24 million on a car-leasing program intended to provid ...
December 22, 2003
Wheels-to-Work spent $10,700 to provide cars that cost around $2,300
A new Toyota Echo. That's what the state could have bought for every low-income West Virgini ...
December 21, 2003
Taken for a ride: West Virginia's welfare car program
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources has launched a statewide investigatio ...
December 8, 2003
Fayette man had car trouble from the start
GLEN JEAN — David Olds suspected trouble with the 1993 Chevy Corsica moments after he pick ...
December 8, 2003
Bowen promises to investigate alleged wrongdoing
The president of the state AFL-CIO defended a program to lease cars to welfare recipients Sunday ...
December 7, 2003
Morgantown nonprofit foundation to sever ties with Cabell County garage
SALT ROCK — Kenneth Ray Parsons doesn't have a state auto dealer's license. He doe ...
December 7, 2003
Welfare recipients 'trashed' cars, program officials say
When West Virginia legislators started to ask questions about the Wheels-to-Work program las ...
November 18, 2003
Lawmakers voted Monday to audit and investigate the West Virginia Wheels-to-Work program. The pr ...
November 12, 2003
Reform the car program
THE TOP priority of the state's social service office should be to help struggling people to ...
November 11, 2003
State should track recipients' jobs, they say
A state senator is questioning why a nonprofit group with "spotty results statewide and terrible ...
November 10, 2003
Agency sells clunkers to some, but gets new state contract
Most of the seat belts in Michelle Clere's 1989 Chevy Astro van don't work. Clere, a Wes ...
November 9, 2003
Edith Holbrook was driving home from the repair shop when her car's engine erupted in flames ...
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