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STAT+: How health care costs are undermining America’s public-sector employers

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STAT+: How health care costs are undermining America’s public-sector employers
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Residents of Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County — home of the state capital, Harrisburg, and the chocolaty oasis of Hersheypark — were shocked with unwelcome news in December 2024. For the first time in two decades, the county’s leaders had not only voted to raise their property taxes, but did so by a whopping 22%.



What they may not have realized: That higher tax bill was needed to help offset the soaring health care costs of the county’s employees.



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