Scranton, PA – Today, U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-08) announced that Scranton-Lackawanna Head Start received $1,639,392 from the Early Head Start Child Care Partnerships program and $248,300 from the Head Start Emergency Supplemental funds. The funds will support the Scranton-Lackawanna Head Start Program in their mission to meet the needs of low-income children and families and prepar... Read more »

Scranton, PA – Today, U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-08) announced that Scranton-Lackawanna Head Start received a competitive five-year grant award, with this year’s award totaling $5,290,611. These funds will be used for the continuation of high quality, comprehensive, early childhood education for children in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Rep. Cartwright has been working with Scranton-Lack... Read more »

U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-08) today announced that more than 6.5 million Economic Impact Payments totaling $15.2 billion have been delivered to hardworking people across Pennsylvania through the American Rescue Plan that Rep. Cartwright helped pass in March 2021. “The American Rescue Plan put money right into the pockets of hardworking Pennsylvanians to help them get by as we worked ... Read more »

U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (D-PA-08) announced more than $50 million in emergency funding from the American Rescue Plan for colleges, universities and students in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The funding will help local institutions manage the severe financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and continue serving their students safely. At least half of the funding each institution receive... Read more »

Today, U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-08) made the following statement on President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan to rebuild our economy and create good-paying jobs for American workers: “I have been calling for an infrastructure bill since I first got to Congress more than eight years ago, and President Biden’s American Jobs Plan is a framework for investing in all of America’s infrastr... Read more »

U.S. Representatives Matt Cartwright (D-PA-08) and David McKinley (R-WV-01), and U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) today reintroduced bipartisan legislation that will strengthen the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to ensure that visual and hearing-impaired students receive the best education possible. The Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy ... Read more »

Luzerne County school districts will get a total of more than $130 million in coronavirus relief funding from the American Rescue Plan, according to a preliminary estimate from U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-8, Moosic. Hazleton Area School District is getting the most with more than $37 million, and Wilkes-Barre Area is next with more than $32 million. The state Department of Education is slated to... Read more »

Eighth Congressional District, PA – U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-08) today announced that the American Rescue Plan passed by Congress and signed by President Biden yesterday would make an estimated $270 million available to school districts in the counties that comprise the Eighth Congressional District to help safely reopen K-12 schools for in-person learning. The funds will be deliver... Read more »

The American Rescue Plan approved by the U.S. House on Feb. 27 would provide around $5 billion for kindergarten-through-12th-grade schools in Pennsylvania, U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright said Friday during a news conference. Cartwright, D-8, Moosic, joined U.S. Rep. Susan Wild, D-7, Allentown, during a news conference on Zoom. They urged the Senate to approve the American Rescue Plan immediately to hel... Read more »

U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-8, Moosic, announced the second installment of a federal grant of nearly $4.9 million for Luzerne County Head Start for 2021. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant disbursement will be used for the continuation of high quality, comprehensive, early childhood education for children in Luzerne and Wyoming Counties. Head Start programs provide children wi... Read more »