Author Diana Polson

RELEASE: Effects of a Minimum Wage Increase on Social Safety Net

INCREASED INCOME FROM RAISING MINIMUM WAGE IS GREATER, AND IN MOST CASES, FAR GREATER THAN THE LOSS IN BENEFITS...

Full repeal of the Affordable Care Act would lead to over 850,000 Pennsylvanians losing their health insurance. Yet, this...

INTRODUCTION Some important things have changed in Pennsylvania politics as a result of the 2018 election. But the basic...

Introduction As Pennsylvania seriously considers raising the minimum wage for the first time in over a decade, concerns have...

State senators Michele Brooks (R – Mercer County) and Dan Laughlin (R – Erie County) told the Manufacturer and Business...

READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. The Demographic Impacts of a Minimum Wage Increase Wrapped into his 2019 budget...

Every year the Tax Foundation, a conservative think tank, releases a report about “Tax Freedom Day,” a made-up day...

State tax systems across the United States vary tremendously in their structure, resulting in varied impacts on income inequality,...

Legislators on both sides of the aisle, and Governor Wolf, all made proposals in 2017 to enact severance taxes...

Deep cuts in state funding coupled with living expenses on campus that have risen faster than tuition are threatening...