About 6,900 licensed child care facilities operate in Pennsylvania as of 2024, according to the most recent data available from PA DHS.
About: Christen Smith
Christen Smith is Pennsylvania editor for The Center Square newswire service and co-host of Pennsylvania in Focus, a weekly podcast on America’s Talking Network. Recognized by Editor and Publisher Magazine as one of the media industry’s “Top 25 Under 35” in 2024.
The carbon tax saga ends in Pennsylvania, for now
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) began nearly two decades ago with a handful of states that agreed to cap emissions from power generators.
Taxpayers have a cost in Supreme Court judicial retention
Taxpayers often take a direct hit from the judges’ decisions. That is, right in the wallet.
Northeast state governments carry higher taxpayer debts
Pennsylvania carries $5,872 in debt per taxpayer.
Taxpayers hand over $89,000 daily while state fumbles budget plan
Both chambers of the General Assembly have repeatedly approved budgets that have appealed only to their partisan interests.
Balmer pleads guilty to attempted murder of Pennsylvania governor
The charges come six months after Balmer scaled a fence at the 57-year-old Gregorian-style mansion on Front Street during the overnight hours of April 13.
Day 100 comes and goes without a state budget
The Democrat majority House of Representatives marked up the Republican majority Senate’s stopgap budget.
Shapiro: Jay Jones texts ‘reprehensible and inexcusable’
Ex-VA House Del. Jones texted another legislator criticizing GOP House Speaker Todd Gilbert, accusing him of raising “little fascists” that he hoped would die.
Ward says ‘we are the stopgap’ after Ciattarelli praises Shapiro
The commonwealth’s divided government means “getting stuff done,” as Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro likes to say, doesn’t come easily.