My challenge to Pennsylvania lawmakers - whose $90,335 salaries are nation s third highest mcall.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mcall.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gov. Tom Wolf with Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry President and CEO Gene Barr.
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Pennsylvania’s minimum wage has rested at $7.25 an hour since 2009, when the last of a series of federal increases kicked in. Since that time, state officials have fielded many calls to raise the state’s minimum wage, but the rate has remained the same. Gov. Tom Wolf has been one of the loudest advocates in the state for raising the wage, repeatedly calling for state lawmakers to increase the minimum wage immediately to $12 an hour, with yearly, phased-in increases to $15.
The closest Wolf came to increasing the state’s $7.25 minimum wage was in 2019, when he and Senate Republican leaders agreed to raise it to $9.50 in exchange for Wolf dropping a plan to expand overtime eligibility for salaried employees. That proposal, however, was opposed by House Republicans and ultimately died in committee, never becoming law. That hasn’t stopped Wolf and lawma
Walk the Earth like a giant in new interactive exhibition opening at Da Vinci Science Center
Posted May 07, 7:00 AM
The Earthwalk Explorer exhibition, an interactive exercise in cultural, civil and geographical mapping, will be unveiled at the Da Vinci Science Center on May 20, 2021.Courtesy of the National Scenic Visitors Center
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What if you could walk from Pittsburgh to Manhattan in just a couple of steps? You wouldn’t even have to stretch.
It sounds impossible, given the realities of spatial geography, distance, the length of a human leg, all of that. But in a couple of weeks, it will be entirely possible, thanks to the National Scenic Visitors Center’s first phase of a football field-sized project.
Pennsylvania State Capital Bureau
Pennsylvania’s Public School Employees’ Retirement System has been embroiled in controversy, and a miscalculation could have thousands of members in the system start to contribute more to their retirement funds in July.
Here s an explanation of what happened and what it means:
What’s PSERS?
PSERS has more than 500,000 members, about half of them teachers, and should not be confused with SERS, which is the State Employees Retirement System that has far fewer retirees.
Currently, PSERS is valued at about $64 billion.
A 15-member board oversees PSERS.
Board members include the state secretaries of banking and securities, and education; the treasurer; an appointee of the governor (currently vacant); five retired or working system members; two school board representatives; two state House members, one from each party; and two state Senate members, one from each party.
PA teachers pension system embroiled in controversy What to know poconorecord.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from poconorecord.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.