Clips with Breakfast: Corbett's cuts put a school district in peril, Corbett's food stamp plan takes heat
January 12, 2012
Here's some reading material to enjoy with breakfast as Tom Corbett's cuts put a school district on the verge of collapse and newspapers take on Gov. Corbett's plan to make it harder for the poor to receive food stamps.
Pennsylvania school district on verge of collapse (and using free labor to stay open) (Washington Post) A tragic story is unfolding in Pennsylvania's troubled Chester Upland School District, where a combination of drastic budget cuts, poor management, student attrition to charter schools and other factors have left the immediate future of the traditional public schools in doubt.
Pa.'s asset test for food stamps is a big, costly mistake (Daily News, Editorial) GOV CORBETT'S plan to reinstitute an assets limit for qualifying for food stamps - $2,000 for those under 60 and $3,250 for those who are older - is sheer economic idiocy that will hurt not only those who are struggling to put food on the table, but the rest of the commonwealth.
Why shouldn't the poor save some money, too? (Philadelphia Inquirer, Editorial) Instead of encouraging the working poor to save, Pennsylvania welfare officials want to punish families for having a few dollars in a bank account.
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