{"id":110914,"date":"2026-02-11T08:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/110914\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:57:07","slug":"shapiros-budget-proposal-seeks-extra-250000-for-pa-211-help-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/110914\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapiro&#8217;s budget proposal seeks extra $250,000 for PA 211 help line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA (WOLF) \u2014 Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro&#8217;s budget proposal requests an additional quarter million dollars in funding for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa211.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PA 211<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the service that helps communities with food assistance, housing, health care, disaster recovery and more. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pittsburgh, PA. PA 211 call center. (Commonwealth Media Services)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8ba6769e-17d2-4c72-bc90-de43d1d575f0-28913_LG_UnitedWay211_AG_23.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh, PA. PA 211 call center. (Commonwealth Media Services)<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis visited a United Way location in southwest Pennsylvania to tout the program&#8217;s benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The state says that in 2024, PA 211 received more than 200,000 calls and text messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WOLF) \u2014 Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro&#8217;s budget proposal requests an additional quarter million dollars in funding for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-110914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}