poverty

HARRISBURG — Nearly 3,000 additional Pennsylvania seniors will benefit from the Senior Food Box Program under new income guidelines announced by the U...

CANONSBURG — Pennsylvania households facing higher energy bills this winter may be eligible for assistance through the Low Income Home Energy Assistan...

CARNEGIE — Starting Oct. 1, funding opened for numerous utility customer assistance programs, including Pennsylvania American Water’s H2O Help to Othe...

HARRISBURG — An expiring state law protects utility customers from rising bills, winter shut-offs and unaffordable reconnection fees. House lawmakers ...

ERIE — The Erie VA Medical Center announced it has housed 79 veterans experiencing homelessness in Western Pennsylvania this fiscal year. A total of 9...

Tax increases get the attention, but regulations can be even costlier. The Committee to Unleash Prosperity recently found new rules imposed during the...

DUKE CENTER — The Duke Center United Methodist Church Food Pantry will be open 10 a.m. to noon and 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at 26 Oil Valley Road. Pre-r...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s work requirement waiver for food stamps now lasts through Aug. 31, 2025. This is despite recent urging from Republican Hou...

WASHINGTON — In honor of National Kinship Care Month, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, launched a n...

With the presidential race heating to a boil, America’s looming retirement crisis should take center stage in this election alongside other top issues...

SMETHPORT — One in five children in McKean County don’t know where their next meal will come from. That’s according to a proclamation issued Tuesday b...

DEAR RUSTY: This is a matter that I find particularly irksome. My wife — a retired teacher — was told that, should I predecease her, she is not eligib...

Kelly Compton believes that a person’s educational choices should only be limited by their own abilities, not their economic class. As a board member ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — An impoverished city in the Ohio Shenango Valley, facing the closure of two hospitals, is fighting back, asking a bankruptcy court ...

Free money makes people less likely to work. If common sense doesn’t convince you of that, a new study should. In July, a National Bureau of Economic ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Due to a glitch in the system, some Americans might receive two Social Security payments in August. And it’s a rare occasion, so fe...

HARRISBURG – A new program that covers fresh groceries for low-income kids during summer break in 2025 will accept applications through the end of the...

Some disabled Americans on Social Security aren’t out of work solely because of their medical condition. Social Security payments themselves may “also...

It may seem ludicrous to describe $1.1 billion in total increases in K-12 public education funding as a half-measure. That’s a vast amount of money, a...

DUKE CENTER — The Duke Center United Methodist Church Food Pantry will be open 10 a.m. to noon and 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at 26 Oil Valley Road. Pre-r...