Some Pennsylvania patients with long-term chronic illnesses are hoping to make legal headway, allowing them to seek medical aid in dying across state lines.
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Salary Survey Highlights Compensation Trends, Pandemic Impact on Child-Welfare Workforce
A new report analyzes salary data and the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has on the workforce of child-welfare, juvenile-justice and children’s mental and behavioral health organizations across Pennsylvania.
‘Barbie’ Is, at its Core, A Movie About the Messy Contradictions of Motherhood | Opinion
The wildly popular “Barbie” movie has been touted for its celebration – and critique – of femininity.
Keep Our Money in Pa.’s Public Schools Where it Belongs | Jill Sunday Bartoli | Opinion
Million-dollar payouts to CEOs and millions of dollars spent on advertising, have been well documented. Yet we let our own public schools — our great American experiment in education for all — become constitutionally inequitable and deeply underfunded.
PA’s ‘Teacher of the Year’ Spends Summer Encouraging Other Educators
Ryan Hardesty, a seventh and eighth grade social studies teacher at Highland Middle School in the Blackhawk School District in Beaver County, has traveled the state to collaborate with other educators, since becoming Teacher of the Year.
USPS Celebrates National Postal Worker Day July 1 in PA
In Pennsylvania and across the country, Saturday is National Postal Worker Day, celebrated annually to show appreciation for postal workers.
Mission Trips are an Evangelical Rite of Passage for US Teens – but Why? | Opinion
According to some estimates, as many as 2 million youth and adults per year participated in Christian mission trips before the pandemic.
‘Keystone Saves’ Aims to Help Millions of Working Pennsylvanians
More than 40% of private sector workers in Pennsylvania earned their living at businesses without retirement plans, as of 2020. Multiple groups are now urging the General Assembly to pass legislation to change it.
Forts Cavazos, Barfoot and Liberty — New Names for Army Bases Honor New Heroes and Lasting Values, Instead of Confederates Who Lost a War
One by one, the names of Confederate generals are being removed from U.S. military bases.
Pa. Lawmakers Propose $10K Student-Teacher Stipend, Rewards for Mentors
After announcing plans to draft a proposed student-teacher stipend program in Pennsylvania, a bipartisan pair of Senate lawmakers have officially attached a number to incentivize students into entering the profession by alleviating some financial burden for aspiring educators.