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Report: Rural Pa. sees gains in migration, drop in birth rates

BY: - May 16, 2023

The reports, released by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, a state legislative agency for rural policy, use data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Health, to better understand the commonwealth’s rural areas, including who is moving into — and out — of them. 

The ceiling of the main Rotunda inside Pennsylvania’s Capitol building. May 24, 2022. Harrisburg, Pa. (Photo by Amanda Berg, for the Capital-Star).

Staff shortages, ‘burdensome’ regulations among top hurdles for addiction treatment providers

BY: - March 9, 2023

At the three-hour-long public hearing hosted by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, a bipartisan and bicameral legislative agency, panelists provided lawmakers with an update on various efforts to stem the tide of opioid addiction and prevent overdose deaths in the commonwealth.  

Pa. broadband authority presents plan to improve high-speed internet access, infrastructure

BY: - November 30, 2022

The plan noted that approximately “2.6 million Pennsylvania residents in 1.3 million, or 26 percent of households—including 25 percent of Latino and 35 percent of Black American Households —either do not have access to or have not adopted high-speed broadband or may lack the skills to effectively use it.”

State officials throw their support behind ‘collaborative’ efforts to combat invasive species

BY: - August 25, 2021

The state spends $950K a year to fight invasive species, a top Wolf admin. official told a bicameral agency

Mail-in ballots and the Pa. Primary | The Numbers Racket

BY: - June 22, 2020

Curious what the demographics of those requests for mail-in ballots looks like across the state?