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 ...

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 ...

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

Pennsylvania’s state budget fight this year will largely be dictated by the rising cost of caring for an aging and sicker ...

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

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 ...

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.

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