Hourly employees at Tobyhanna Army Depot would earn more under a bill introduced by Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Moosic, and Sen. Bob Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat, in the U.S. House and Senate.
Pay for hourly employees is based on 1950s military installation placements, while salaried workers are paid based on metropolitan markets — in this case, the New York City region, whose…
The Economic Development Council of Northeastern Pennsylvania received a $70,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright announced Friday.
The grant supports the council’s economic development strategy for the region, which includes Carbon, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Schuylkill and Wayne counties, according to the announcement from Cartwright,…
U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Moosic, last week voted to pass H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act — landmark legislation to strengthen the health and financial security of America’s seniors and families struggling under the weight of skyrocketing prescription drug prices.
Currently, U.S. drug prices are nearly four times higher on average than other…
By Congressman Matt Cartwright / A version of this article was published in the Scranton Times-Tribune on November 24, 2019.
Between 2012 and 2016, the price of insulin nearly doubled in the United States.
Unfortunately, in America’s prescription drug market, price hikes like that have become routine. In the first half of 2019 alone, drug companies increased…
U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Moosic, announced this week that he will serve in a leadership role in the Jobs for America task forces — a unified effort from the House Democratic Caucus to craft a legislative agenda to benefit hardworking Americans and middle-class families.
Cartwright will serve as co-chair for the Rebuilding America Task Force.
“Investing in…
When the 2007 financial crisis struck, Wall Street was the epicenter.
Big banks tricked Americans into mortgages they couldn't afford through predatory lending practices. Then, they packaged those doomed mortgages into securities, which they traded as triple-A securities, even though they knew they were rotten at the core.
By the time the whole house of cards came crashing…
Scranton natives — I’ll call them Robert and Linda — both worked full-time jobs and were financially secure until they experienced a series of misfortunes. Not only did the couple lose part of their hard-earned pensions, but they both were denied raises and overtime due to their employers’ financial troubles.
Making matters more difficult, they experienced medical…
The bridge building U.S. Sen Bob Casey spoke about Thursday had as much to do with politics as infrastructure.
The Democrat from Scranton expressed a willingness to work with President Donald Trump on keeping his campaign promise to invest a trillion dollars to repair the nation’s roads and bridges with the hope that a portion of that money goes to the Solomon Creek wall…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday eviscerating clean-air regulations adopted by the Obama administration, but his expectation that the pass on pollution will revive the coal industry is overly optimistic.
Monday, the CEO of the nation’s largest privately owned coal-mining company said that Trump and the industry needed to “temper expectations.”…
As we enter 2017, I look forward to promoting policies that will benefit working Americans. Over the past year, constituents sent out a clear message: we need to secure our future. In today's economy, a reliable future depends on secure jobs, jobs that pay decent wages and allow people to provide for their families. I believe that one of the best ways to create jobs in Pennsylvania and…
