{"id":314221,"date":"2026-10-26T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314221\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T00:02:10","slug":"gov-josh-shapiro-campaigns-for-re-election-in-pa-discusses-jobs-abortion-rights-housing-costs-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314221\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Josh Shapiro campaigns for re-election in PA; discusses jobs, abortion rights, housing costs | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA &#8211; With the midterm elections inching closer, candidates are hitting the campaign trail to win over undecided voters.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Josh Shapiro was recently in Meadville, Pennsylvania &#8211; a city in Northwestern Pennsylvania to campaign for his re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Shapiro is running against Republican State Treasurer Stacy Garrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaise wages. It&#8217;s time to raise the minimum wage in Pennsylvania. Republicans have blocked that for the last 15 years. It&#8217;s one of the reasons I&#8217;m working so hard to flip our state Senate for the first time since 1992,\u201d Shapiro said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor also wants to create more jobs, codify abortion rights, and lower the cost of housing.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro\u2019s opponent, Stacy Garrity, is hoping to unleash Pennsylvania&#8217;s natural energy resources, make life more affordable, and reduce property taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA &#8211; With the midterm elections inching closer, candidates are hitting the campaign trail to win over undecided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[902,33,28,30,29,382],"class_list":["post-314221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-elections","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-politics-of-the-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314221","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=314221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}