Governor Wolf joined his bipartisan colleagues from Ohio, Montana, Nevada, Colorado, Massachusetts and Louisiana to express concern over Washington’s approach on health care, particularly the prospect of deep cuts in federal funding to states for Medicaid.
Governor Tom Wolf today praised the formation of a bipartisan task force to investigate the scope of Pennsylvania’s lead exposure problem.
Governor Tom Wolf, Department of Human Services Secretary Ted Dallas and Department of Education Secretary Pedro A. Rivera announced an investment in Philadelphia City community schools to leverage and connect schools to the large array of health-related services that are available for Philadelphia’s children.
Governor Wolf said that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) statistics on fatal overdoses in Pennsylvania increasing again last year are a call for the state and federal government to redouble efforts to combat the heroin and opioid epidemic, not dial efforts back with funding cuts.
Over the last two years, the Wolf Administration has increased access to housing in the commonwealth by 10 percent through the Department of Human Services.