PA Budget Summit 2021, Workshop: ReImagine Appalachia: Towards a Climate Infrastructure Stimulus
ReImagine Appalachia: Towards a Climate Infrastructure Stimulus that Kick Starts a “New Deal That Works for US” in the...
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PA Budget Summit 2021: Legislative Panel Discussion (Closing Plenary)
The closing plenary session for the 2021 Pennsylvania Budget Summit was a legislative panel discussion featuring state lawmakers, who...
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Pizza and the Minimum Wage
Originally published at Penn-Live on April 09, 2019 Spend a little time talking to Republican (and some Democratic) legislators about...
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Statement on HB 2412: Is Real Estate Really Essential?
We want to reiterate our opposition to HB 2412 even as amended, a bill to require the secretary of...
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A Statement on HB 1776: Property School Tax Freeze Is a Wrong Move for PA
Pennsylvania, like every other state in the country, faces an unprecedented budget crisis at both the state and local...
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COVID-19 exposed the cracks in our system. We have to fill them, not just paper them over
Originally published in the PA Capitol-Star on April 28, 2020 We can learn a great deal from moments of...
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A Status Update on Pennsylvania’s Policy Response to COVID-19: Economic Relief, Health Care and Worker Protections
The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the inequities and inadequacies that exist in our Commonwealth, from the precarity of...
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In PA, Worker Protections Ruled “Out of Order”
As the Pennsylvania House of Representatives moves toward consideration of legislation that would allow most businesses in the Commonwealth...
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Declaring Victory Too Soon Will Cost Too Many Lives
All over the Commonwealth today, people are dying in terrible ways from COVID-19—struggling for breath without the comfort of...
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Race and COVID-19
COVID-19 is like a chemical in which one dips a photographic print—it gradually reveals things you couldn’t see before....
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A Compendium of State Action in Response to the COVID-19 Epidemic
This is a compendium of state action and public policies PBPC and KRC have recommended and endorsed as necessary...
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Choose Lives, Not Money: On a Proposed Amendment A04895 to SB 327, PN 1436
Governor Wolf has ordered all Pennsylvanians to stay at home except when necessary to engage in “tasks essential to...
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