Like others around the country, the state’s unemployment office was wholly unprepared for the pandemic, operating with a staff thinned by budget cuts and capable of handling only a relatively small number of claims.
Property tax revenue will decline as people need more time to pay, and interest rate reductions will depress interest earnings, one expert said.
"This is a moment when we need a leader, a president like Joe Biden.”
The twin announcements from highlight Biden's effort to avoid a repeat of the 2016 presidential election, when tensions between establishment Democrats and the party's progressive flank hobbled Hillary Clinton in her loss to President Donald Trump.
Pennsylvania’s state-owned liquor stores have processed about $2.3 million worth of curbside orders since that program began on Monday.
His reopening plan said a region or county will need to average fewer than 50 new positive cases of the virus per 100,000 residents for 14 days in order to begin moving out from under his statewide lockdown.
Gov. Tom Wolf's administration is boosting its efforts to get voters to cast their primary election ballots by mail, saying it would help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
In a nationwide study of 368 patients in U.S. veterans hospitals, 28% who received hydroxychloroquine and usual care died, versus 11% of those getting only routine care.
Regions of Pennsylvania that have seen a low number of coronavirus cases might be able to reopen "in a fairly robust" way on May 8, Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday.
All 12.8 million Pennsylvanians will have to stay home at least through that date, said Wolf, extending his existing stay-at-home order by another eight days.
