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Shapiro’s workforce development plan could pay off big for Pa., policy director says

By Soapbox Group
March 17, 2023
  • Pennsylvania
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By: Jan Murphy

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s effort to win bipartisan appeal in his first budget by emphasizing workforce training and supports to help businesses create new high-wage jobs could prove to be truly transformative for the state, said the director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center.

Marc Stier, who heads that liberal-leaning policy center in Harrisburg, said the only problem he sees with what the new Democratic governor proposed in that initiative is he didn’t put enough money behind them.

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