The Assembly Labor Committee today released a bill that would provide eight weeks of emergency unemployment benefits for those who exhaust all of their state ...
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Democrats intend to pass their budget on Thursday and send it to the governor, which would give him about ten days to decide what to ...
Sweeney says the rest of his proposed reforms will be drafted by April. The budget battle, though, is likely to take quite a bit longer.
Legislative leaders were briefed on the budget Monday afternoon by treasury officials.
Some of the controversial recommendations include ending the current public worker pension system and merging nearly half of the state's school districts.
The American Federation of Teachers has endorsed Senate President Steve Sweeney, who faces a Republican opponent backed by the state's largest teacher's union.
Guadagno and Murphy spar in the first general election gubernatorial debate.
Police and fire representatives don't agree on a bill meant to transform the retirement system. The Assembly Appropriations Committee approved a plan to transfer management ...
Embedded in President Trump's proposed budget, deep cuts to women's health care and cancer screenings. And deep cuts to environmental cleanup in a state bounded ...
A bill unanimously passed the Senate transferring management of the police and firemen's retirement system from the state back to its roughly 85,000 current and ...
Crowding international arrivals to call out President Trump's travel ban as an assault on our values. A crowded docket of pressing issues put to a ...
The proposals deal with public worker pensions, drug treatment, the school funding formula and transportation improvements.
The big state budget speech. Should profits from a health insurer and the lottery be tapped to cover expenditures? We'll crunch the numbers. The other ...
Instead of making one payment into the public worker pension funds at the end of the fiscal year, lawmakers unanimously approved a bill to have ...
The chronically under-funded public worker pensions could get a quarterly transfusion of cash. All that stands in the way now is Christie. The designation that ...
A potential strike by 5,700 SEPTA workers threatens to gnarl travel into, out of and around Philadelphia.
A looming scramble for commuters to Philly. SEPTA workers have set a midnight strike deadline. How to avoid being stranded. Courtroom drama in the Bridgegate ...
Senate President Steve Sweeney takes on the two most daunting budget issues facing the state, the underpaid public worker pension fund and the TTF to ...
Does a former Christie aid believe the governor "flat out lied" about his knowledge of the GWB lane closures? What did he know and when ...
The public pension fund is $44 billion in debt and a bill to put a question on this November’s ballot asking voters for a constitutional ...