99% PA Statement on Pres. Biden’s Budget Proposal for 2023–2024
Today, President Joe Biden visited Pennsylvania to unveil a bold 2023-24 budget proposal that makes crucial investments in our...
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Friday’s Five Fast Facts about Federal Priorities: What’s Been Happening in Washington, DC, this Week | February 3, 2023
February has arrived. Temperatures in Pennsylvania are plummeting, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, and President Biden will deliver his...
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Friday’s Five Fast Facts about Federal Priorities: What’s Been Happening in Washington, DC, this Week?
Friday’s Five Fast Facts about Federal Priorities: What’s Been Happening in Washington, DC, this Week? | Friday, January 27,...
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STATEMENT: Protect Medicare and Social Security
Statement by PBPC director Marc Stier at a press conference with US Representatives Brendan Boyle and Mary Gay Scanlan,...
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U.S. Senate Vote on $3.5 Trillion Budget Resolution Begins Process for Enacting Pres. Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 11, 2021 Contact: Kirstin Snow, snow@pennbpc.org U.S. SENATE VOTE ON $3.5 TRILLION BUDGET RESOLUTION BEGINS...
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The Need for Federal Aid to the States: A Statement
Marc Stier delivered the following remarks at a press event held by Senator Bob Casey. Thank you, Senator Casey,...
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What We Know About the Senate July 2020 COVID-19 Relief Bill
The House passed the HEROES Act in May, but it was only this week that the Senate came back...
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Funds for Pennsylvania in the Senate Coronavirus Relief Act
Update April 1: Two additional funding streams are not yet included in the table below. 1. The state should...
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Tax Freedom Day? Not Really.
Every year the Tax Foundation, a conservative think tank, releases a report about “Tax Freedom Day,” a made-up day...
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PRESS MEMO: New Estimates of the Loss of Federal Funding to Pennsylvania from the Senate Health Care Bill
The Manatt Health Group and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released a study on the impact of the Senate...
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ED BOARD MEMO: Federal Budget Proposal Would Blow Nearly $700 Million Hole in PA Budget by Shifting Food Assistance Costs
President Trump’s budget would make deep cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps,...
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STATEMENT: On the Trump Administration’s Proposed FY 2019 Federal Budget
This press statement, released on February 12, 2018, shares our reactions to the Trump administration’s FY 2019 budget. It...
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