Property Tax Shift Bills on Their Way to House Floor for Consideration This Week
On the first day of the new legislative session and at the same time a number of education groups...
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PA’s Health Insurance Coverage Rates Still Below Pre-recession Levels
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) show that Pennsylvanians have not made up for...
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Life on Welfare: Cato Gets It Very Wrong
It’s great to be poor. That’s the finding of a Cato Institute report released this week claiming to calculate...
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State Predicts Increase in Sales, Income Tax Collections
As I previously blogged here and here, Pennsylvania General Fund revenue collections are projected to grow very little in...
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Sales, Income Taxes to Rise; Corporate Taxes Not So Much
As I blogged last week, state budget forecasters are not predicting much growth in revenue collections over the 2013-14...
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America’s Food Security Program in Danger
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday voted 216-208 to pass a bill that separates agricultural support programs from...
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Small Steps Toward Reform But Special Tax Breaks Remain
Among the final pieces of the 2013-14 budget package now before the Governor is a Tax Code bill that...
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House Derails Medicaid Expansion But the Fight Goes On
The Pennsylvania House rejected an effort by Representative Gene DiGirolamo (R-Bucks) today to revive the Medicaid expansion before the...
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Pa. Senate Appropriations Approves $28.375 Billion Budget
The Pennsylvania Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a 2013-14 state budget (amended into HB 1437) that spends $28.375 billion,...
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Philadelphia School Funding Agreement Comes with Strings Attached
The Philadelphia School District will receive new state funding, but with strings attached that leave some key decisions in...
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PA Needs to Get Serious about Closing Loopholes
Check out my recent op-ed for PennLive.com on the opportunity — and obligation — the Pennsylvania Senate has to really close...
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$2-$2.5 Billion in Funding for Transportation Being Negotiated with Budget
Dueling transportation funding plans from the Pennsylvania Senate and House are still being hashed out in the Capitol this...
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