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With the release of April job numbers for Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry this morning, Keystone Research executive director Stephen Herzenberg and policy analyst Maisum Murtaza
It has been just over three years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The just-released March jobs report...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the first cell phone call. On April 3, 1973, co-inventor Martin Cooper...
We need reparative and restorative justice instead of just punitive justice Originally published in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star on March...
Ten days ago, Governor Shapiro’s unveiled his proposed state budget for 2023-24. In one priority area for Keystone Research...
PBPC director Marc Stier made these remarks to the Press Club of Pennsylvania on Monday, March 13, 2023. “Bipartisan”...
Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center joined a press conference on Thursday in support of Senator Vincent Hughes’s plan to...