“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
It is a disgrace that anyone should go to bed hungry at night, let alone children, writes the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee.
The bill is likely to reverse years of escalating health insurance rates in the country.
Both Bucks County Sheriff Fred Harran and his Democratic challenger Danny Ceisler refused to comment on the appointment.
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
Not all GOP lawmakers are on board with proposals to reduce spending on Medicaid, food stamps and other programs as a way to help cover the cost of extending some $3.8 trillion in Trump tax breaks.
Local resistance is blocking state legislation to bring Christian nationalism into public schools.
Nigro talks to Editor Cyril Mychalejko about his work documenting world-changing stories, from Occupy Wall Street to Standing Rock, Charlottesville to Jan. 6th, France’s Yellow Vest Protests to Ukraine War, and most recently LA’s anti-ICE protests which he reported for the Beacon.
Kristen Crowell, executive director of Fair Share America, said the GOP budget bill is the “most unpopular piece of legislation in the history of this country,” and Rep. Fitzpatrick should be aware of this.
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
“This bill would allow you to set aside any state law, you could pollute the air as much as you want, you could pollute the water as much as you want, you could do anything essentially that you wanted that would ordinarily violate the law,” said former Secretary for PA’s Department of Environmental Protection David Hess.
