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More pain is on the way, Pennsylvania. Today, Republican Gov. Tom Corbett proposed a new budget that includes 30% in cuts to state-funded institutions like Temple and Penn State.
Here is the budget, and here is the speech.
That adds up to big money: a $42 million cut to Temple, and $64 million cut to Penn State. In 2011, Corbett proposed a 50% cut to higher education, which the legislature decreased to 19%: Temple tuition increased by $1,172, Penn State's by $712.
According to the Inquirer, the proposed budget also includes a $30 million cut to Philadelphia public schools.
The proposed cuts come on top of last year's budget, which included $1 billion slashed from education and a required $400 million in cuts from public welfare—and then an $155 million across the board midyear cut implemented in January.
State-funded programs that Philadelphians depend on—education, healthcare for the poor and disabled, welfare, food stamps, and care to the disabled, victims of domestic violence, and the homeless—are already in crisis. Though the proposed budget might spare many of these programs—some are being repackaged into block grants, and I'm still try to figure out what that means—there is no new money available to meet a rapidly growing need for services.
And according to Community Legal Services, the proposed budget eliminates the General Assistance program, which provides cash assistance to nearly 68,000 disabled adults, domestic violence survivors, people caring for sick or disabled person, those in drug and alcohol recovery, and children in the care of a nonrelatives. Read their full press release below.
Prison spending, at $1.8 billion, will not be cut. A recent study found that Pennsylvania actually spends $463.8 million more on prisons than is generally reported. Corbett did note that the prison budget is not being increased for once. Meanwhile, there will be cuts to Environmental Protection (7.8%, or $10.5 million) and Conservation and Natural Resources, the beleaguered agencies that patrol Fracksylvania (follow StateImpact for more...).
Check Thursday's City Paper for an in-depth analysis of two years of budget cuts' impact on Philadelphia. This will take me a minute to digest.
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- Disabled or sick adults without children,
- Domestic violence survivors,
- Adults caring for another who is sick or disabled,
- Adults participating in drug or alcohol treatment programs, and
- Children living with an unrelated adult.
GA is also used for bail, which is counterproductive to public safety. If an addict and drug buyer gets arrested, they have a higher likelihood of getting connected to sobriety services from within the prison/forensic system than they typically do as a GA recipient on their own in the community.
There are no requirements not to give GA to someone who is charged with a crime, convicted of a crime, or who is actively using illegal substances. In this regard, GA becomes essential for someone to support a drug habit.
It should not have to be explained that this is not GAs intended use.— CleanupPhilly
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