Some Major Corporations Pay Little or Nothing in State Income Taxes
What do Pennsylvania-based companies PPL, H.J. Heinz, Airgas, Allegheny Technologies, Hershey, and Comcast have in common? They each pay...
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Study Finds Many Profitable Corporations Pay Little or No U.S. Income Taxes
One would think that all profitable Fortune 500 companies in the United States are paying some amount in federal...
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Morning Must Reads: A Few Inconvenient Shale Truths
For a long time, we’ve been making two points about natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. One, Pennsylvania’s...
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Unlike Other States, No Revenue Surpluses in PA
While most states are finally recovering from the worst recession in decades, and seeing revenue surpluses for the first...
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What’s in the Governor’s 2014-15 Budget?
Governor Tom Corbett has proposed a 2014-15 state General Fund budget that would spend $29.4 billion, $927 million, or...
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Many Core Drilling Jobs Existed Before Emergence of Hydrofracking
It’s been nearly two weeks since we released a report with the Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative finding that drilling...
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Shale Drilling Highly Sensitive to Price, Meaning Job Gains May Not Be Lasting
Natural gas drilling in the six states spanning the Marcellus Shale is highly sensitive to price fluctuations. High prices...
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Six-State Study Finds Industry Supporters Exaggerated Jobs Impact of Shale Drilling
Drilling in the six states that span the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations has produced far fewer new jobs...
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Video: Don’t Let Property Tax Plan Derail PA Schools
The future of Pennsylvania schools—and the quality of education every child receives—is at stake in a property tax proposal...
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Video: What the Affordable Care Act Means for PA
Advocates and health care providers gathered at the State Capitol this week to explain how Pennsylvanians who are working...
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‘How Life Changing This Will Be for People Who Thought They Would Die Without Health Insurance’
Susan Mull of Lancaster County joined health care advocates and providers Monday to preview the opening of the Health...
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School Funding Should Be Harrisburg’s Top Fall Priority
On Monday, parents, school board members, and citizens from across Pennsylvania came to Harrisburg to fight for more school...
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