A Sweet Victory for Working Families With a resounding knock of the gavel, a Common Pleas Court judge ruled the City’s beverage tax to be lawful, dismissing the soda industry’s lawsuit against the city, “in its entirety,” reported the Inquirer. A sweet victory for...
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PA House Democratic Caucus Pre-K Letter to Governor–December 21, 2016
Just before the holidays, the PA House Democratic Caucus sent a letter to Governor Wolf asking for an $85 million increase for pre-k in his proposed budget for next year. It was signed by 70 members. Click the link below for the full letter, including list of...
The $450M Scam on Taxpayers – December 16, 2016
The $450 million scam on taxpayers With school districts stressed by PA’s inadequate education funding, they must make sure every penny is spent wisely. Cyber charter schools, however, are a huge cost to districts and wisdom doesn’t factor into the equation. School...
Impact of ACA rollback will make you sick–December 9, 2016
Impact of ACA rollback will make you sick–December 9, 2016
Impact of ACA rollback on kids will make you sick More than 100,000 children in Pennsylvania are currently uninsured. But if a rollback of the Affordable Care Act is enacted, as Congress is now considering, that number could swell. Such a move would be...
Students will be our “workers or prisoners”–December 2, 2016
Students Will Be Our "Workers or Prisoners" We all get it. Good jobs = good income = better quality of life. We all want better skills so we can get better jobs to provide for our families. We want to be the workers, the business owners, and the bosses who...
Slipping through the cracks–November 18, 2016
Slipping through the cracks–November 18, 2016
Prevention: The Only Cure If 2,400 children had caught the measles last year, the City would have declared a Code blue, a health emergency, unleashing significant resources to contain the outbreak and prevent further cases. That would have been reasonable. Instead,...
The Elephant in the Room–November 11, 2016
The Elephant in the Room Anxiety. We’re all feeling it. For some it’s starting to ebb, for others it’s starting to gush. It’s hard to know how this caustic election will impact children. What we do know is they’ll look to the adults in their lives for...