Foster parents, homeless shelters, families facing eviction – they all depend, to varying degrees, on programs and funding bound to the state and federal government.
County governments coordinate some of those programs and pass through the money to social service agencies that run others.
At least 15 of 67 of the Commonwealth’s counties have stopped providing aid and services, or paying contractors to do so — or both — as the state budget impasse enters its fourth month, according to a report updated Monday by the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania.
The average municipality gets less than 15 percent of its revenue from state and federal government sources, according to Keystone Crossroads’ analysis of thePennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development’s statewide figures.
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.
