Third and State is a joint blog of the Keystone Research Center and PA Budget & Policy Center providing a progressive view of the state economy, budget and other policy matters.
News flash: extending enhanced federal unemployment benefits, due to expire today, won’t discourage workers from returning to their jobs, according to a new study by Yale University economists. Failing to extend them, as congressional Republicans favor, could plunge the...
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”...
The attention of the public and political leaders in our state and country has understandably been focused in the...