{"id":18552,"date":"2025-10-29T09:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/18552\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:48:23","slug":"berks-officials-should-pressure-lawmakers-on-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/18552\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks officials should pressure lawmakers on budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The failure of the Pennsylvania Legislature to adopt a state budget after more than 16 weeks is inexcusable and unacceptable. Berks County Community Foundation is in the process of publishing a series of articles called \u201cGovernment Cuts, Local Impacts.\u201dHospital charity costs are skyrocketing. Food banks are closing; people providing essential human services are being furloughed, and educational institutions are being forced to undertake expensive borrowings to continue operations.Meanwhile, at least $2.5 billion in payments to our county is sitting in state coffers, unable to be disbursed to crucial service providers in the community. Last week officials in York County announced a decision to stop remitting funds to the commonwealth until a state budget is adopted. We commend this action and wonder what Berks officials will do to pressure a resolution to this ridiculous standoff.Kevin K. MurphyPresident, Berks County Community Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The failure of the Pennsylvania Legislature to adopt a state budget after more than 16 weeks is inexcusable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,5037,1559,28,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-18552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","10":"tag-opinion","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18552","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=18552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}