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Advocates Call for More Funding to Raise Wages, Provide Disability Services

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The pandemic accelerated what was already a staffing crisis for providers that serve people with disabilities. Now, WESA’s Kate Giammarise reports, advocates are pushing for additional millions in the state budget to raise wages and fight staffing shortages.

Read the full story at: https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2022-05-02/advocates-push-for-more-state-funds-for-disability-services-and-higher-wages-for-workers

(Original air-date: 5/3/22)

Kate Giammarise focuses her reporting on poverty, social services and affordable housing. Before joining WESA, she covered those topics for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for nearly five years; prior to that, she spent several years in the paper’s Harrisburg bureau covering the legislature, governor and state government. She was part of the P-G staff that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting on the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.