In January of 2021, we stood in Pennsylvania’s Capitol to announce the formation of an Economic Recovery Task Force that would inform the Commonwealth’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
While the Pennsylvania of nearly 20 months ago was very different–we were all masked, socially distant, and yet to have access to today’s vaccines and treatments–we knew that we would need a serious effort to correct our economic trajectory and meet the challenges ahead of us.
We knew then we needed to start the work of marshalling Pennsylvania’s legislative resources to develop an economic recovery and growth agenda that will lead Pennsylvania out of the pandemic and into a better future.
Fast forward to July of 2022, and while the nation slipped into a recession with two quarters of negative growth, we have positive news to report closer to home.
Pennsylvania was just ranked among America’s Top…