Shared Work, Shared Benefits: Why Expanding Work Sharing Would Pay Off for Employees, Employers, and Pennsylvania in the COVID Recession and Beyond
Expanding Pennsylvania’s use of work sharing—reduced work hours and pay combined with partial unemployment benefits so that workers experience...
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HB 2513 Threatens Not Just Our Health but the Economy
Republicans in Harrisburg appear ready to move to override Governor Wolf’s veto of HB 2513, which would severely limit...
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COVID-19: The False Choice Between Our Health and the Economy
For six months now, Republican legislators in Harrisburg have been telling a false story about COVID-19 and the economy....
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UPDATE: How Many Lives Have We Saved?
While, for months, Republican legislators were insisting on a rapid reopening of businesses in Pennsylvania, Governor Wolf’s health and...
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission Warns of “Financial Havoc From Climate Change”
As forest fires rage in California, and flooding and drought become more common in many parts of the country,...
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The Consequences for PA of Declaring the ACA Unconstitutional
A case coming before the Supreme Court threatens to declare the entire Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. If that happens,...
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STATEMENT: Select Committee Proposed by PA House Republicans Is a Danger to our Democracy
The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center is a nonpartisan organization. We do not favor one party or another in...
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Thoughts on SB 421 – The Election Reform Bill
Last Friday we released a policy brief on SB 421, the election reform bill that that is currently being...
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Elimination of Straight-Ticket Voting and Related Matters
To: State legislators, editorial board writers, political reporters, and interested parties From: Marc Stier, Director, Pennsylvania Budget and Policy...
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No Longer the Great Equalizer: New Study Highlights How Pennsylvania’s Low and Declining Investment in Higher Ed Threatens Access to College, Especially for Black and Hispanic Families
As we have showed previously, low levels of state funding for public higher education in Pennsylvania has led to...
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STATEMENT: Keystone Research Applauds Governor Wolf’s Final Rule Which Will Restore the 40-Hour Work Week and Overtime Pay for Hundreds of Thousands of Additional Pennsylvania Salaried Workers
HARRISBURG — Stephen Herzenberg, economist and executive director of the Keystone Research Center, issued the following statement in the...
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Corporate Tax Change will Bring Additional Revenue into Pennsylvania, How Much is Still Not Known
In June 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. that states may tax purchases made by...
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