Third and State is a joint blog of the Keystone Research Center and Pennsylvania Budget & Policy Center, providing a progressive view of the state economy, budget, and other policy matters. For older blog posts, click here.
News flash: extending enhanced federal unemployment benefits, due to expire today, won’t discourage workers from returning to their jobs,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed numerous ways in which our political community is unfair to many people—and especially those...
We are living in a time where collective loss and heartache are everyday occurrences as people lose their...
While Republican legislators have been insisting on an early reopening of businesses in Pennsylvania, we have seen one of...
The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center and Keystone Research Center submitted an amicus curia brief in Wolf v. Scarnatti,...
This blog provides an update on the impact of the COVID Crash on the Pennsylvania economy. The “good news”...