OP-ED: Pennsylvania needs a fairer tax system
This piece originally appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 26, 2016. Pennsylvania faces another budget crisis. The combined deficit...
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Senator From York Predicts a Recession
If you were getting bored by the never-ending budget process, a flurry of colorful metaphors by “Fightin” Sen. Scott...
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PA’s Tax System Grows More Unfair: Low-Income Pay Price
Pennsylvania often falls near the bottom of state rankings—for instance, 47th in job growth and 48th in funding for...
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PA Fails Low-Income Preschoolers
A national education report card gave Pennsylvania a grade of D+ and a ranking of 41st among states for...
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NY Gov Proposes Property Tax ‘Circuit Breaker’—Will PA Follow?
This week, New York governor Andrew Cuomo proposed a $1.66 billion property tax “circuit breaker” as part of his...
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For PA School Districts, the Rich Get Richer & the Poor Get Poorer
According to an Associated Press analysis, the gap between the haves and have-nots in public schools grew much worse...
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Crush Unions and You Crush the Growth in Earnings for Workers
New analysis by David Cooper and Lawrence Mishel explores differences by state in wage trends and changes in union...
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Reflections on the One-Day Work Week
At the Keystone Research Center, we closed the office last week except for Friday, Jan. 2, giving our team...
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Camelot: Where King Arthur…I Mean Queen Dianne…Earns a Cool £2.1 Million
Pennsylvania Senate hearings on lottery expansion earlier this week focused on increasing state revenue for seniors’ programs by expanding...
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Minimum Wage Raise Would Primarily Benefit Adult Workers in PA
In January, the minimum wage rose to $8.25 an hour in New Jersey, $8 in New York, and to...
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Small Revenue Shortfall Predicted for 2013-14 But No Need to Panic — Yet
Pennsylvania is staring at a likely revenue shortfall of more than $100 million come June when the current fiscal...
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Fuzzy Shale Jobs Math. One More Time…in PA’s New State Energy Plan
With the Corbett administration rolling out a new State Energy Plan today, I’ll leave it to the energy policy...
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