(Harrisburg) -- The state faces an estimated budget deficit of between $1.5 and $2 billion. Lawmakers will only have 30 days to meet the budget deadline when they return from their spring recess June first. But some are pushing their pet issues now. Discussions around...

Last week, Los Angeles City Council voted to raise the minimum wage in that city to $15 by 2020. In Pennsylvania, lawmakers are trying to increase what businesses are required to pay their workers from the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour to $10.10. Discussions around...

Sen. Art Haywood joined U.S. Rep Boyle at a news conference at the Inter-Faith Food Cupboard to support an increase in the minimum wage to at least $10.10 an hour. The lawmakers were accompanied by activists, business owners and community leaders in Montgomery County....

Out of that estimated number, Haywood added that Pennsylvania foots approximately $1 billion of that bill. Those opposed to a minimum wage hike argue that it would put a financial strain on companies that would lead to an increase in job cuts in order to save money....

Brendan Boyle patrols the Congressional corridors in Washington and Art Haywood works the legislative byways in Harrisburg, miles apart, in more ways than one.  But the two Democrats came together on Wednesday at an Abington food pantry to talk about the prospects for...