Three federal policies playing out in Pennsylvania

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  Emily is a reporter for WITF who’s been covering voting and elections since July 2019 as part of her former role with statehouse accountability news organization PA Post. She was the senior reporter for statewide public media collaboration Keystone Crossroads. Previously, she covered city hall for PennLive/The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pa.), was a watchdog and city hall reporter at The Press of Atlantic City and reported for the Northwest Herald. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
  
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Title X Clinics in Pennsylvania

From The Context, PA Post’s weekday email newsletter:

National health, military moves hitting home

• Rural Pennsylvanians have a relatively tough time getting access to birth control and other family planning services already. But it’s poised to get harder within the next few months when changes to Title X will restrict federal grants that for decades have supported those services. WESA’s Lucy Perkins lays out the situation in this story.

• Nearly 700,000 Pennsylvanians lack health insurance about a decade after the Affordable Care Act took effect. Still, coverage rates are higher in the Commonwealth than nationally, according to this reportfrom PublicSource’s Matt Petras.

• Pennsylvania officials including Democrats Sen. Bob Casey and state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale say state military projects could lose out if federal funding is diverted to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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A view of State Street in Harrisburg.

• Harrisburg’s State Street has been dubbed one of the nation’s deadliest for its rate of pedestrian and cyclist fatalities per mile. This week, the city unveiled its “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate pedestrian deaths, PennLive’s Christine Vendel reports. Bethlehem and Philadelphia also have adopted strategies guided by Vision Zero, a safer streets collaboration among cities nationwide.

• The Reading Eagle Co. is filing for bankruptcy, but will continue to publish its 150-year-old daily newspaper and broadcast news-talk radio station WEEU. More details in this Associated Press story.

• Union County is the healthiest in Pa. and stacks up well nationally, too, according to annual rankings from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Here’s why, courtesy of The Daily Item.