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Lawmakers aim to stop closure of 2 institutions for disabled

by Associated Press
| January 15, 2020 12:35 PM

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A fight to block Gov. Tom Wolf from closing two state centers for the intellectually disabled produced a second large majority in Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Legislature on Wednesday, even as Wolf vowed to continue a decades-old trend away from institutional care.

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