Month March

What Not to Do in the Face of a COVID-19 Driven Recession: Lessons from the Corbett Years

As COVID-19 hurtles us towards a global recession, Pennsylvania will need to make difficult decisions about how to handle...

A recent study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington projects the...

Updated: 04/23/2020 On April 16, the U.S. Department of Labor reported “hard” numbers on the economic impact of the...

Update April 1: Two additional funding streams are not yet included in the table below. 1. The state should...

We were in the last two weeks of work on this analysis of the governor’s proposed budget for the...

A few years ago, I wrote a piece that explained why health care has to be provided communally. I showed that...

Here is what we think we know about the bipartisan COVID-19 stimulus / relief bill that we expect the...

Pennsylvania lawmakers today face two challenging pressures that are difficult to reconcile: a) a deep recession that has eroded...

We were in the last two weeks of work on this analysis of the governor’s proposed budget for the...

The coronavirus poses a number of serious challenges to every country and to every state in the nation, and...