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Funding for child care, home services for older adults, and disability support will increase under Pennsylvania’s latest budget, but recruitment and retention are expected to persist in the long term.

Pennsylvania legislators have passed just 65 bills in 2025, which is poised to be an all-time low for the past decade, leaving key priorities unfinished.

A GOP-led committee voted along party lines to issue subpoenas for records detailing Gov. Josh Shapiro’s use of public funds to fortify his private home following an April arson attack.

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Lawmakers want to ensure the Shapiro admin is holding corporate middlemen, known as pharmacy benefit managers, accountable.

Pennsylvania and its county and local governments are on track to spend nearly all of the federal American Rescue Plan Act funds they received to address the economic and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Justices Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty, and David Wecht survived an expensive election.

Pennsylvania’s intermediate Commonwealth and Superior appellate courts play critical roles in the state’s justice system.

Election officials say third-party voter registration drives can result in canvassers submitting incomplete or invalid registrations.

Blame it on a mix of lagging reporting, weakly enforced rules, and a campaign finance system that requires little transparency.

The uptick could be a sign that this year’s judicial retention races are stirring interest in the 2025 election.

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Shapiro admin officials are shielding information about nearly a quarter of those expenses, citing security concerns.

A 2020 case of double voting in Pennsylvania was discovered using information from ERIC, a data-sharing consortium that has come under attack from conservatives in recent years.