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New Survey: Financial Strain Forcing Parents to Sacrifice Warm Coats for School Children

Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, Oct. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Operation Warm, a national nonprofit that provides brand-new coats and shoes to children in need, today released results from a new nationwide survey highlighting...

Religious Liberty Commission Hosts Third Hearing on Religious Liberty in Public Education

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, the Religious Liberty Commission held its third hearing to discuss religious liberty issues in education from the perspectives of teachers and coaches, as well as religious liberty issues in school funding and educational...

ICYMI: Shapiro Administration Secures $46 Million in Private Sector Investment and Over 180 New Jobs for Pennsylvania While in Ireland

A senior team from DCED traveled to Ireland to promote the Commonwealth as the best place for international business investments, with more than 22 global companies investing over $93 million to expand into PA over the past year. During the trip,...

ICYMI: Shapiro Administration Secures $46 Million in Private Sector Investment and Over 180 New Jobs for Pennsylvania While in Ireland

A senior team from DCED traveled to Ireland to promote the Commonwealth as the best place for international business investments, with more than 22 global companies investing over $93 million to expand into PA over the past year. During the trip,...

Influential Women Highlights Pamela Smith-Payton’s Leadership as a Visionary Nonprofit Advocate

JACKSONVILLE, FL, UNITED STATES, September 29, 2025 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Empowering Communities, Transforming Lives, and Championing Social Change Pamela Smith-Payton, who will be featured by Influential Women in 2025, is a passionate community...

Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company Named Insurance Insider Honors 2025 Employer of the Year

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES, September 26, 2025 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- The Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company (PLM), the largest mutual insurer dedicated to wood-related businesses, took home the Employer of the Year award at...

Senate Bill 1027 Printer's Number 1189

PENNSYLVANIA, October 3 - ethnicity, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation or disability of another individual [or], group of individuals[, he commits an offense under any other provision of this article or]...

Senate Bill 1024 Printer's Number 1191

PENNSYLVANIA, October 3 - PRINTER'S NO. 1191 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA SENATE BILL No. 1024 Session of 2025 INTRODUCED BY COSTA, SANTARSIERO, KEARNEY, HAYWOOD, HUGHES, FONTANA, COMITTA, KIM, SCHWANK, TARTAGLIONE, KANE, PISCIOTTANO,...

Senate Bill 1029 Printer's Number 1194

PENNSYLVANIA, October 3 - context clearly indicates otherwise: "Appropriate agency." A department, board, commission or agency of the Commonwealth, the Federal Government or another state as approved by the Attorney General of the Commonwealth for...

Senate Resolution 157 Printer's Number 1206

PENNSYLVANIA, October 3 - WHEREAS, Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) represents a centuries-old movement rooted in America's founding principles and its enduring legacy of civil rights and social justice efforts, aimed at delivering laws,...

Senate Bill 1021 Printer's Number 1186

PENNSYLVANIA, October 3 - PRINTER'S NO. 1186 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA SENATE BILL No. 1021 Session of 2025 INTRODUCED BY GEBHARD, MASTRIANO, LANGERHOLC, ARGALL, ROTHMAN, STEFANO, J. WARD AND HUTCHINSON, OCTOBER 3, 2025 REFERRED TO...

Senate Bill 1022 Printer's Number 1187

PENNSYLVANIA, October 3 - institutions of higher education. (G) Correctional institution staff. (H) Community-based organizations. (4) In consultation with the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs and community-based organizations, establish a...

Senate Resolution 164 Printer's Number 1203

PENNSYLVANIA, October 3 - PRINTER'S NO. 1203 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA SENATE RESOLUTION No. 164 Session of 2025 INTRODUCED BY KANE, TARTAGLIONE, HUGHES, PISCIOTTANO, BROWN, HAYWOOD, SANTARSIERO, VOGEL, SCHWANK, COSTA AND CAPPELLETTI,...

Senate Bill 1026 Printer's Number 1190

PENNSYLVANIA, October 3 - PRINTER'S NO. 1190 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA SENATE BILL No. 1026 Session of 2025 INTRODUCED BY COSTA, SANTARSIERO, KEARNEY, HAYWOOD, HUGHES, FONTANA, COMITTA, KIM, SCHWANK, TARTAGLIONE, KANE, PISCIOTTANO,...

Senate Bill 1040 Printer's Number 1208

PENNSYLVANIA, October 3 - "Budgetary impasse investment loan." An investment loan entered into or otherwise authorized by the State Treasurer, pursuant to section 301.1 of the Fiscal Code, during a budgetary impasse, the purpose of which is to...

Senate Bill 1025 Printer's Number 1192

PENNSYLVANIA, October 3 - bias, provided that, from the perspective of the community affected, the community service will not increase the risk of further violence or intimidation against that community. (b) Condition of parole.--A person...

Senate Resolution 163 Printer's Number 1202

PENNSYLVANIA, October 3 - damage; and WHEREAS, In 1964, Ms. Hamer helped to found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which registered 60,000 new African- American voters in Mississippi and was developed to oppose Mississippi's exclusively...

Senate Bill 1035 Printer's Number 1204

PENNSYLVANIA, October 3 - PRINTER'S NO. 1204 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA SENATE BILL No. 1035 Session of 2025 INTRODUCED BY KANE, COLLETT, SAVAL, CAPPELLETTI, KEARNEY, FONTANA, COSTA, VOGEL, KIM, COMITTA, LAUGHLIN, ROBINSON, PISCIOTTANO,...

Attorney General Brenna Bird Leads Bipartisan Coalition to Protect Children from Illegal Chinese Vapes

DES MOINES—Attorney General Brenna Bird led a bipartisan coalition of 28 states to defend North Carolina’s law protecting children from illegal Chinese vapes. In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Attorney General Bird...

Shapiro Administration Works to Promote Business Investment and Travel to Pennsylvania During Economic Development Trip to Ireland

A senior team from DCED is promoting the Commonwealth as the best place for international business investments, with more than 22 global companies investing over $93 million to expand into PA over the past year. Sec. Siger and senior business...