Pennsylvania Treasurer Joe Torsella held the task force’s final hearing Wednesday that outlined possible solutions to solve the retirement security crisis facing Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Treasurer Joe Torsella Thursday joined together with a bipartisan group of legislators and retirement security advocates to launch a website aimed at promoting transparency about what Pennsylvania is planning to do for retirement security.

As part of a task force to address the little under half of Pennsylvania's who cannot save for retirement through work, State Treasurer Joe Torsella held the second of three meetings on the gap in retirements savings in Pittsburgh Friday morning.

The meeting focused on hearing from state business leaders and retirement planners, who laid out the high cost for many small firms to set up retirement funding for their employees. While the panel was presented with a few solutions, none will be formally presented by the task force until a final meeting in January in Harrisburg.

While the House Finance Committee had sunshined a Monday vote on a severance tax proposal that would have imposed a 3.2 percent severance tax on natural gas extracts on top of the already-existing local impact fee, the meeting was abruptly cancelled on Friday.

Auditor General Eugene DePasquale Thursday offered takes related to the current state budget situation, noting those in charge of figuring out how to balance and manage state finances are not facing “a lot of ideal decisions.”