The Fight for $15 Is Already Lifting Wages
Today, in 200 U.S. cities, workers will rally for higher pay and a union. These actions, which started in...
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Senate Appropriations Committee: Part I of an Education Budget Preview
The Senate Appropriations Committee met on March 30 to discuss the proposed 2015-16 education budget with Acting Education Secretary...
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The State of School Funding Inequality in PA
The Education Trust, an independent national education policy organization, recently released a report on the nation’s growing funding inequalities...
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March Collections Show Why We Need Corporate Tax Reform in Pennsylvania
March is always the most important month for the collection of corporate taxes because nearly half of all corporate...
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Pittsburgh: One of America’s New Laboratories of Democracy
UPDATED My colleague Diana Polson brought my attention to Harold Meyerson’s new story in The American Prospect highlighting Pittsburgh...
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You Can’t Pay the Hospital with Your Varsity Letter: The Union Vote at Northwestern University
The controversy surrounding the effort of Northwestern University football players to form a union makes me think back to...
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Education Is the New Black
A new poll out confirms the public’s support for more education funding and a new education funding formula. The...
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Morning Must Reads: A Natural Gas Severance Tax This Year?
Momentum is building to enact a natural gas severance tax in Pennsylvania. But don’t take it from us. The...
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A Guide to the Creative Use of Numbers by the Business Lobby
The debate over raising the minimum wage can quickly become a fog of studies and numbers. So in the...
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Governor’s Corporate Tax Cut Plan Will Cost $800 Million
I am testifying before the Pennsylvania House Finance Committee today on Governor Tom Corbett’s plan to cut the state’s...
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Expansion of Health Care Will Boost PA Economy, Hospital Study Finds
Acting on the federal opportunity to expand Medicaid health coverage will give Pennsylvania’s economy a real shot in the...
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Don’t Know Much About History …
Last week, we released a report at the Keystone Research Center that has me humming an old Sam Cooke...
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