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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

General Assistance Program – Pennsylvania

Cash assistance program for Pennsylvania’s poor returns this fall, By Aaron Mosell, August 20, 2018, WHYY: “General assistance, a state-funded cash program created to help Pennsylvania’s poorest residents, will start issuing benefits again next month, six years after lawmakers voted to eliminate it…”