Maisum Murtaza

What a Path to Legalization for Undocumented Immigrants Means for Pennsylvania

Last week, the House Judiciary Committee conducted a markup for a legislative proposal that details a pathway to citizenship...

PRESENTATION: State of Working Pennsylvania 2021

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The State of Working Pennsylvania 2021

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TESTIMONY: Maisum Murtaza Makes Remarks on Immigrants & DL Access Before Committee Hearing on Transportation and Driver’s Licenses

Introduction: Thank you to all members of the Transportation Committee for listening to these remarks today. My name is...

Small Businesses and Workers Still Need Help

The state budget enacted in late June has two glaring and interrelated missing pieces: it provides little support for...

Why You Get Hurt When Your Neighbors’ Unemployment Benefits Get Cut

May job numbers for the nation, released June 4, and the Pennsylvania job numbers for April, released late May,...

Congress, State Lawmakers, Take Heed: PA’s Workers & Small Businesses Still Hurting from COVID Crash

Economists use multiple measures to assess the health of Pennsylvania’s economy. Special care is needed to identify reliable measures...

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Warns of “Financial Havoc From Climate Change”

As forest fires rage in California, and flooding and drought become more common in many parts of the country,...

Making PA’s Undocumented Immigrants Mobile: Enacting Driver’s License Expansion Policy That Works for Everyone

Driving is such an essential part of basic mobility that most of us take it for granted. Many of...

Including Immigrants in Pandemic Relief is Essential for America’s Public Health and Economic Recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed numerous ways in which our political community is unfair to many people—and especially those...

Ineligible for Relief: #FundExcludedWorkers

  We are living in a time where collective loss and heartache are everyday occurrences as people lose their...

Pennsylvania’s Essential Workforce is Disproportionately Women and People of Color: Demographics of Pennsylvania’s Essential Workers