AARP Pennsylvania

One of the difficulties of discussing, debating, and advocating about issues in Harrisburg is the difficulty of making the concern you’re working on sound new and fresh to policymakers. Long-term care may be the prime example of this – the impact of long-term care on individual Pennsylvania families who are faced with dealing with a loved one in need of long-term care is tremendous, and the impact on the Commonwealth’s budget, and ultimately on the state’s taxpayers, is also large and growing each year.

Looking for new opportunities or help with a job search? Come to the Pennsylvania Conference for Women on Thursday, Oct. 6, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.

Most fiction publishers would reject the saga of Kathleen Kane for being too unrealistic for fiction. The unhappy tale came to a close in Pennsylvania this week, as Attorney General Kane was convicted by a jury in Montgomery County on Monday evening. She was found guilty of nine counts of perjury, obstruction and other charges for orchestrating a leak of secret grand jury information to a Philadelphia newspaper with the aim of embarrassing a political foe. After lying about it to a grand jury, Kane was convicted and later announced her resignation, ending a tumultuous three-and-a-half year term in office.

There are many uncomfortable issues that individuals try not to think about too much, until it impacts your family. For many families in Pennsylvania, one of those issues is turning out to be drug addiction.

Determining the amount and type of care needed for a loved one is one of the most difficult and gut-wrenching decisions a family must make. When someone is in need of help or long-term care, numerous factors must go into the decision.

Big billboards line many Pennsylvania highways to advertise the jackpots for the Powerball and MegaMillions lottery games. Tickets are sold in almost every state in the nation, and when the number on those billboards gets very high, as it did in January when the Powerball jackpot reached $1.6 billion, lines begin to form wherever lottery tickets are sold.

First Energy Rate Increase Request Would Impact Millions of Pennsylvanians

After a whirlwind of activity in the past two weeks, members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly left town late on Wednesday, July 13, after passing legislation which completed work on the 2016-17 state budget.

By Kathryn Canavan

Pennsylvania’s elected leaders continued high-pressured negotiations on a 2016-17 state budget as the calendar moved closer to the end of the 2015-16 fiscal year on June 30. As of this writing, the Pennsylvania House had passed a budget bill and the Senate amended it to pass a different version of a state budget and send it back to the House. Negotiators from the Senate and House are working on a compromise, but they need to determine if the level of spending contained in any compromise budget would equal the level of revenues collected by the State and whether the spending priorities of members of the General Assembly and the Governor could be achieved. In addition, the Governor must weigh in with his views.