House Bill 2626 would provide profitable corporations a new tax credit just for filling a vacant position without creating...
read moreSharon Ward of The PA Budget and Policy Center testifies before the House Finance Committee regarding state inheritance tax....
read moreIn 2010, the Pennsylvania General Assembly took steps to enact a severance tax on natural gas drilled in...
read moreSenate leaders rejected the compromise within the severance tax plan and have refused to budge from a plan that...
read moreThe Tax Foundation Press Released its 2011 Business Tax Climate Index, ranking Pennsylvania 26th in the nation. In this...
read moreA study financed by the gas industry, overplays the positive impacts of increased natural gas production, while minimizing the...
read moreHouse Bill 76 and Senate Bill 76 would create a funding gap that leaves Pennsylvania’s students permanently behind. Pennsylvania...
read moreThis paper examines the roles between property taxes and public education in Pennsylvania. Eliminating school property taxes, as some...
read moreHear firsthand from Mark Ryan of the Independent Fiscal Office and Sharon Ward of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy...
read moreOver the past few years, many other states, similar to Pennsylvania in 2011 and again today, have faced critical...
read moreThe Department of Public Welfare (DPW) will end family planning coverage for almost 90,000 low income women currently enrolled...
read morePennsylvania’s deep cuts in funding to K-12 education since 2010-11 have drawn a great deal of attention in recent...
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