{"id":7925,"date":"2017-06-15T18:34:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T22:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=7925"},"modified":"2024-01-15T22:37:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T03:37:31","slug":"what-would-an-adequate-pennsylvania-budget-look-like-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=7925","title":{"rendered":"What Would an Adequate Pennsylvania Budget Look Like This Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/StierBlogcapitol-complex-aerial.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7926 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/StierBlogcapitol-complex-aerial.jpg?resize=274%2C173&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/StierBlogcapitol-complex-aerial.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/StierBlogcapitol-complex-aerial.jpg?resize=238%2C150&amp;ssl=1 238w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/StierBlogcapitol-complex-aerial.jpg?resize=150%2C95&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>What Would an Adequate Pennsylvania Budget Look Like This Year?<\/p>\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-8 views-row-even\">\n<div id=\"node-1550\" class=\"post-ntype published not-promoted not-sticky teaser-view author-marc-stier clear-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div id=\"post-content\">\n<p>A really good budget for Pennsylvania would begin addressing our long-term public investment deficit. It would provide new funds to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>eliminate our worst-in-the-nation inequality in K-12 school funding;<\/li>\n<li>expand pre-K education to all three and four year-olds;<\/li>\n<li>make higher education more accessible, especially to students from low-income families;<\/li>\n<li>restore the funding that would allow the Department of Environment to better protect our air and water;<\/li>\n<li>provide new funding to repair roads and bridges and support public transit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"links\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Would an Adequate Pennsylvania Budget Look Like This Year? A really good budget for Pennsylvania would begin addressing our long-term public investment deficit. It would provide new funds to: eliminate our worst-in-the-nation inequality in K-12 school funding; expand pre-K education to all three and four year-olds; make higher education more accessible, especially to students from low-income families; restore the funding that would allow the Department of Environment to better protect our air and water; provide new funding to repair roads and bridges and support public transit. &nbsp; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=7925\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[97,197,205,107],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-23P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7927,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925\/revisions\/7927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}