Recent history tells Pa. where to spend pandemic relief funds; let’s see if Pa. listens | John Baer
Updated Apr 01, 2021;
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is getting a fiscal shot in the arm from good old Uncle Sam to the spritely tune of $7.3 billion. That’s billion with a “B.”
It’s the state government’s share there’s much more for local governments, school districts, etc. of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, a pandemic recovery package that your kids, their kids and their kids might never pay off.
Seem like a lot? It is a lot, one-fifth of the state budget. But government runs on money. Ours hasn’t run well. Maybe more money makes it run better.
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REBECCA MOSS Spotlight PA
(Editor’s Note: Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media.)
Sandra Huffman was cleaning St. Luke’s hospital in Quakertown, gloved and maskless, when she got sick last March. It felt as though a film of spiderwebs had caked her throat, she said. At 54, she was sleeping upright in bed, breathing through a borrowed nebulizer, and drinking an old family remedy of fat Spanish onions congealed in sugar.
She sold her ’86 Chevy Mallard RV, then her mother’s gold jewelry. By late summer she was collecting cans for scrap metal. Huffman did not know that a federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, administered by the state, would provide money for people like her until October.
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Pandemic unemployment benefits are a lifeline for more than four hundred thousand Pennsylvanians. But payments stalled this year.
By Rebecca Moss, Spotlight PA
Sandra Huffman was cleaning St. Luke’s hospital in Quakertown, gloved and maskless, when she got sick last March. It felt as though a film of spiderwebs had caked her throat, she said. At fifty-four, she was sleeping upright in bed, breathing through a borrowed nebulizer, and drinking an old family remedy of fat Spanish onions congealed in sugar.
She sold her ’86 Chevy Mallard RV, then her mother’s gold jewelry. By late summer she was collecting cans for scrap metal. Huffman did not know that a federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, administered by the state, would provide money for people such as her until October.