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United States Postal Service mail processing facilities in Altoona, Erie, Greensburg, Lancaster, New Castle, Reading, Scranton, Washington and Williamsport, as well as the Southeastern operation are slated to close.
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According to statistics released from the U.S. Census Bureau, families in Pennsylvania are worse off than they were 10 years ago.
Cumberland County saw its poverty rate for families increase from 6.2 percent in 1999 to 7.8 percent.
Dauphin County saw its poverty rate for families increase from 12 percent to 20 percent!
Lebanon County saw its poverty rate for families increase from 8.9 percent to 15.2 percent.
York County saw its poverty rate for families increase from 7.1 percent to 11.4 percent
Crawford County saw its poverty rate for families increase from 16.2 percent to 20.7 percent.
Erie County saw its poverty rate rise to 17.4 percent while the City of Erie’s poverty rate increased six percent to 30.2 percent and is the second-highest poverty rate in Pennsylvania.
The City of Reading has a poverty rate of 41.3 percent and comes in at numero uno! Poverty rates for other major Pennsylvania cities are Allentown 27 percent, Philadelphia 26.7 percent, Pittsburgh 22.3 percent, 21.1 in Scranton and 20.9 in Bethlehem.
The poverty rate for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is 13.4 percent or more than 1.6 million Pennsylvanians. More than half a million people living in poverty are children under the age of 18!
These rates are higher for minority families. For example, 45 percent of blacks and Hispanic families in Erie live under the poverty level. The poverty rate is 25 percent for white residents.
The U.S.poverty rate hit a 17 year high of 15.1 percent. 46.2 million people in the United States were living below the poverty level in 2010. The federal poverty level for a family of four is a yearly income of less than $22,314.
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Erie’s largest party kicked off tonight and will continue through Sunday with music, food, art, fireworks, kid’s activities and more! Most of all it is free and family-friendly! The Kids Zone is two whole blocks of fun!
The four-day event attracts over 100,000 people to downtown Erie where visitors pump over $3 million dollars into the local economy.
Erie, Pennsylvania’s fourth largest city, is located on beautiful Lake Erie and offers endless things to do in addition to the festival. Head to Erie this weekend!
To check out the schedule of activities (and it’s a long list) click here: http://celebrateerie.com/index.html
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The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission voted today to split up the (814) area code. This area code, which covers from Erie County to the Maryland border, is running out of phone numbers.
The PUC considered three proposals on how to divide up this massive swath of Pennsylvania. Of the four original Pennsylvania area codes established in 1947, (814) was the last area code to remain unchanged.
Below is as link to the PA PUC website showing the county split. The new area code number has yet to be determined.
http://www.puc.state.pa.us/telecom/pdf/areacode/814split_CountyMap2010.pdf
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