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legislators
The pay raise included a provision allowing legislators to take their raises immediately in the form of "unvouchered expenses. -
protest on midnight raise
a mugging of state taxpayers,Not only did legislators increase their salaries 16 percent to 34 percent to at least $81,050 — more than any state except California — they crafted the package in secret without debate or public scrutiny, then left town. -
Legacy
In November 2009, Barbara McIlvaine Smith announced that she would not run for re-election in 2010, saying that she was frustrated with the progress of the post-pay raise reform movement.[7] However, she ultimately did run for re-election in 2010 and lost to Republican challenger Dan Truitt. -
Open States Transparency
The Sunlight Foundation released an "Open Legislative Data Report Card" in March 2013. Pennsylvania was given a grade of C in the report. The report card evaluated how adequate, complete, and accessible legislative data was to the general public. A total of 10 states received an A: Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Kansas, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. -
major issues
In November 2013, the Pennsylvania state House and state Senate voted unanimously on a bill, which was signed by Gov. Tom Corbett, to change the state’s unemployment compensation law. The bill closed a loophole that allowed a state employee to retire from his job and begin collecting benefits, -
pink pig
brought his 25-foot-long by 15-foot-high inflatable pink pig to the state Capitol on Monday to protest some recent actions that he considers abuse taxpayers. -
cost benifit
Looking at data from 2008 through 2011, the study's authors found that some states were more likely to use cost-benefit analysis, while others were facing challenges and lagging behind the rest of the nation. The challenges states faced included a lack of time, money, and technical skills needed to conduct comprehensive cost-benefit analyses. -
money issues
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a consumer-focused nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., released its annual report on state transparency websites in March 2015. The report, entitled "Following the Money," measured how transparent and accountable state websites are with regard to state government spending.[13] -
Supreme Court decides judges can keep controversial pay raises
More than 1,000 state judges will get to keep their middle-of-the-night pay raises even though the Legislature repealed the judicial raises in November. In a much-awaited ruling issued yesterday, the state Supreme Court, whose members also will get the higher pay, overruled part of Act 72. That's the measure legislators approved Nov. 16 to cancel the pay raises they had approved earlier last year for themselves, state judges and some members of Gov. Ed Rendell's cabinet. -
pay raise issues
A 1.6 percent pay raise does nothing to make up for years of pay freezes and miniscule increases that have left federal employees worse off today than they were at the start of the decade,” American Federation of Government Employees
