LEHIGH VALLEY EXPRESS-TIMES Editorial: …With stagnant tax revenues, high unemployment and a pyramid of public pension debt looming, Pennsylvanians must expect some scaling back.
Yet [Gov. Tom]Corbett’s proposed cuts in social services, education and other areas go deeper than necessary. The state Senate indicated as much in restoring $500 million to Corbett’s budget plan last week. About half of that will go to higher education, in return for state and state-related universities keeping tuition increases at or below the rate of inflation.
The Senate’s amendments are welcome, but its budget still wipes out the general assistance cash-grant program, which provide checks of $200 a month to adults living with disabilities. For some, that may be the difference between paying rent and utility bills and hitting the streets… (more)
