Gov. Josh Shapiro and Pennsylvania's politically divided Legislature will miss Pennsylvania's legal deadline to pass a budget ...

Impasses don’t mean much unless they stretch for more than a few weeks. Then, they start having serious consequences for ...

The Senate recessed the evening of June 30 with no immediate plan to reconvene, while the House is scheduled to return to ...

Ford founder Henry Ford decided in 1914 to more than double factory wages to $5 a day, jump-starting the American middle ...

Shapiro and Senate Republican Majority Leader Joe Pittman — the top GOP negotiator — say progress is being made. And the top ...

State lawmakers say they’re still far apart on reaching a budget deal as the clock ticks ever closer to their deadline of the start of a new fiscal year on Tuesday. Still, the true impact of that ...

Most agencies have enough cash to continue running for some time, although school districts are already nervous. Legislators ...

Pennsylvania’s state government is expected to start the new fiscal year Tuesday without a spending plan in place. That’s not ...

It’s July, there’s no budget in sight, and the Pennsylvania General Assembly has recessed for the holiday. The undone spending plan hovers in stasis as the federal budget resolution bill nears final ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania state budget deadline of June 30 is expected to be blown past by the Democratic-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate, with negotiations not ...

The total cost of funding the state's department that administers Medicaid topped $55 billion last year including federal contributions, with the state covering $19 billion of the cost.

Advocates say free school lunch would produce healthier, more engaged students — plus would save kids from stigma, and ...