Maisum Murtaza

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

COVID Collapse Likely to Cost Pennsylvania More Than 750,000 Jobs by Summer

Updated:  04/23/2020 On April 16, the U.S. Department of Labor reported “hard” numbers on the economic impact of the...

Funds for Pennsylvania in the Senate Coronavirus Relief Act

Update April 1: Two additional funding streams are not yet included in the table below. 1. The state should...