From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org): PBPC has released a new 30-second video at https://www.facebook.com/PennBPC/videos/10155682839380789/ that explains the current budget impasse, highlights the risks, and calls for action. We’re heavily promoting it on Facebook, with customized versions targeted … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org): PBPC has created an interactive spreadsheet (http://pachoice.org/potential-education-cuts-pa/) that projects the financial losses to school districts (& to House districts based on the SDs within them) of 12% across-the-board cuts to Basic Education … Continued
NOTE there are two actions. Say NO to State Budget Raid of Environmental Funds From PennFuture (http://www.pennfuture.org): PennFuture needs your urgent help TODAY. When a major newspaper in the Commonwealth compares the current state budget shenanigans in Harrisburg to “a clown … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org): In July, the General Assembly enacted an austere budget of about $32 billion. It increased spending very little over last year but used savings in many areas to direct more money to … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org): Republican members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, with the support of outside advocates, are moving to announce plans to borrow massively, perhaps up to more than $2 billion, from many of … Continued
Posted at https://www.thirdandstate.org/2017/august/evidently-you-can-make-stuff-commonwealth-foundation-and-house-gop-state-budget Posted by Marc Stier on August 24, 2017 10:17 am The Commonwealth Foundation, in recent op-eds and website posts, has presented a misleading analysis of the state budget, one that falsely claims that state spending has been increasing relative to … Continued
From Raise the Wage PA (http://raisethewagepa.org/): Raise the Wage PA participated in a press conference with Senator Art Haywood on August 17 calling for including increasing the minimum wage into the drawn out budget process in Harrisburg. Contact your state … Continued
From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): You can make a huge difference. Right now, your state representative is deciding how to vote on a bad budget bill (HB 542 ) that would put important environmental protections in major jeopardy. The … Continued
From Pennsylvanians Against Fracking (https://paagainstfracking.org/): The Pennsylvania legislature has been guilty of over-reach and pandering to gas industry interests in the past (Act 13 comes to mind), but the current amendments to House Bills 542 (Tax Code), 453 (Fiscal Code), … Continued
Posted at https://www.pennfuture.org/News-PennFuture-Statement-Budget-Deal-Prioritizes-Gas-Industry July 27, 2017; HARRISBURG, PA – PennFuture strongly opposes the budget deal passed by the Senate today, which takes environmental protection away from statewide watchdogs and places regulatory power into the hands of the oil and gas … Continued