Even if you're really good at budgeting, if your boss were four months late with your check you might have trouble paying your bills.
With no state budget nearly four months into the new fiscal year, even the wealthiest counties in Pennsylvania are making cuts or draining their rainy day funds to pay their bills.
While the effects are not as dramatic as taking out a $275 million loan to fund the state's largest school district, or contemplating cuts to Meals on Wheels, the budget impasse means social service vendors in Chester and Montgomery Counties are skating by with less.
Read the full version of this report at Keystone Crossroads' website. Keystone Crossroads is a new statewide public media initiative reporting on the challenges facing Pennsylvania's cities. WPSU is a participating station.