Kate Giammarise of WESA
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Gov. Josh Shapiro has said he wants to eliminate the waiting list, and has proposed putting an additional $483 million in federal and state funds to do so into this year’s budget. -
State officials say a new initiative will aid Pennsylvanians filing for unemployment compensation. -
Counties are waiting to hear if an oversight board will publicly approve their strategies. -
Spotlight PA and WESA are requesting opioid settlement spending reports from all 67 counties in Pennsylvania to provide transparency into the process. -
Counties must report how they spent tens of millions of dollars they received in the first rounds of opioid settlement payments. -
With McKeesport signing on in November, Allegheny County will get a full payout from the opioid settlement fund this year. -
Opioid payments for county governments and county district attorney offices equaled about $6.50 per resident across the state last year. But there were big differences.
