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A Guide to the Creative Use of Numbers by the Business Lobby

Type: Blog
Author: Mark Price
Date: April 16, 2014

The debate over raising the minimum wage can quickly become a fog of studies and numbers. So in the...

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Apocalypse Not: Severance Taxes and Industry Exit in the Marcellus Shale

Type: Reports and Papers
Author: Parth Vaishnav, Nathaniel Horner
Date: March 25, 2014

In this paper, the economics of a typical unconventional gas well in the Marcellus Shale from the point of...

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Some Major Corporations Pay Little or Nothing in State Income Taxes

Type: Blog
Author: Chris Lilenthal
Date: March 20, 2014

What do Pennsylvania-based companies PPL, H.J. Heinz, Airgas, Allegheny Technologies, Hershey, and Comcast have in common? They each pay...

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Policy Brief: Pennsylvania‰’s Lagging Economic Growth

Type: Reports and Papers
Author: Stephen Herzenberg
Date: March 04, 2014

Pennsylvania’s economy, jobs, and unemployment continue to be among the top issues of concern for state residents in opinion...

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Study Finds Many Profitable Corporations Pay Little or No U.S. Income Taxes

Type: Blog
Author: Chris Lilienthal
Date: February 27, 2014

One would think that all profitable Fortune 500 companies in the United States are paying some amount in federal...

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Interesting Report on the Middle Class in Philadelphia

Type: Blog
Author: Mark Price
Date: February 26, 2014

Susan Warner of The Pew Charitable Trusts has a very interesting study out titled Philadelphia’s Changing Middle Class. The...

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Morning Must Reads: A Few Inconvenient Shale Truths

Type: Blog
Author: Chris Lilienthal
Date: February 25, 2014

For a long time, we’ve been making two points about natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. One, Pennsylvania’s...

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