No One Wants Leviathan
Listen to the extremist Republicans who are blocking a Pennsylvania budget deal and you might hear the echo of...
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Governor Wolf’s Minimum Wage Executive Order — A Step in the Right Direction
This week, Governor Tom Wolf announced that, through executive order, he would require Pennsylvania state workers under his jurisdiction...
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The Rising Fiscal Cost of the Budget Impasse
The Inquirer’s Joseph DiStefano reported last week that Standard and Poor’s is threatening to cut Pennsylvania’s credit rating due...
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Enough Is Enough. The Courts Must Intervene.
The following is a guest post from Susan Spicka, director of Education Voters of Pennsylvania. It was originally posted...
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How Low Will They Go?
The majority of Pennsylvanians believe that every child in Pennsylvania deserves a high quality education. We believe that the...
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Penn Brief on PA School Funding Policy: Three Things You Need to Know
Last November, the University of Pennsylvania’s Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) released a policy brief on how...
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Pennsylvania Ranks Worst in Education Funding Inequality
The Washington Post ran a story on March 12 about unequal education funding between the haves and have-nots in...
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OK, So It’s Not the Swimsuit Issue…But Mark Price Made SI (Sports Illustrated)
This may be a first for an economist. A map based on a report by our very own Mark...
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Something Borrowed: Governor Wolf’s Revenue Ideas
Governor Wolf’s proposed state budget addresses the Commonwealth’s structural deficit and raises the money needed to strategically invest in...
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Gov. Wolf’s Cyber Charter Reform Plan Would Help Public School Students
Governor Wolf’s proposed 2015-16 state budget, unveiled last week, proposes to reform cyber charter school funding so that it...
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Budget Critics’ Stupid Math Tricks
David Letterman would have been proud. The “drown government in a bathtub” crowd put on a show earlier this...
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Pennsylvania’s Economy Still Needs a Turnaround: Falling Unemployment Results from People Leaving the Job Market
While a lower unemployment is sometimes good news, the decline in Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate over the last two years...
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