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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

With eight days to go before the state's current spending plan expires, Senate Republican Majority Leader Joe Pittman has said it appears almost certain no budget deal will be in place by June 30.