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The state budget invests $282 million into nursing homes and long-term care facilities
More money for education, health departments, nursing homes, child welfare services and to continue an emergency rental and utility assistance program are bright spots in Pennsylvania s new state budget, Erie-area officials say.
So are provisions that give municipalities more flexibility when applying for grants for transportation projects.
But lawmakers also kept flat investments in mental health which has been a growing problem throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and they squirreled away much of the state s allocation from the federal American Rescue Plan.
Rep. Ryan Bizzarro, D-3rd Dist., Millcreek Township, the chairman of the House Democratic Policy Committee, said there were a lot of missed opportunities, like making an investment in broadband expansion, but that the budget could have been worse.
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It s going to get better, Biden, wife of President Joe Biden, told Bukoski. It is, Bukoski responded. I can already feel it.
The exchange captured much of what Biden and Cardona came to Erie County to discuss: How the COVID-19 pandemic has changed education and forced teachers, students, parents and others to adapt to a new landscape of learning and how there is, as Biden put it, light at the end of the tunnel as the pandemic continues.
Biden, Cardona and National Education Association President Becky Pringle met with parents and teachers in the school library to hear how the Fort LeBoeuf School District community has successfully returned to the classroom.