To provide support to a region which has been hit hard by the decline of local industries.
What's special about NE PA that wouldn't apply to my Atlasian home state of West Virginia or other places? I guess that's the question I'm really asking.
This question did come up in the Senate debate and there is now a similar bill that is going through the Senate for Appalachia as a whole:
https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=374009.0
Didn't Devout Centrist sponsor a similar Appalachia bill around a year ago?
Edit: Found it
https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=322978.0, seems this one was directed solely at the opioid epidemic.
