Income Inequality

PA’s Emergency Rental Assistance Shorts Counties with Most Renters in Need

As Pennsylvania lawmakers wrangle over how our state should use American Rescue Plan funds, we must look at the...

KRC Joins Other Experts in Making Recommendations to the Biden Administration on How to Achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, the United Nations Member States, including the U.S., unanimously approved 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) to be...

RELEASE: Pennsylvania Billionaires Got $4.3 Billion Richer Over First 10 Months of Pandemic

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Pa. is in the throes of a COVID-19 recession. Wolf, lawmakers need to step up for working families

Originally published by the PA Capital-Star on November 17, 2020 No matter where we live, what we look like,...

Kitchen Table Issues and the 2020 Presidential Election

There has been a lot of discussion about character issues in this election. But kitchen table issues are likely...

COVID-19 exposed the cracks in our system. We have to fill them, not just paper them over

Originally published in the PA Capitol-Star on April 28, 2020 We can learn a great deal from moments of...

The Moral Equivalent of Wartime Equality: Public Policies in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Pennsylvania

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

Child Care for Minimum Wage Workers in PA Costs 78.5% of Annual Earnings

“This fight for $15 is about more than money, it’s about being able to live.” — Reverend Dr. William...

A New Proposal Would Give a Much-Needed Boost to Pennsylvania’s Working Families

Senator Bob Casey today joined Senators Sherrod Brown, Michael Bennet, Dick Durbin, and Ron Wyden to introduce the Working...

Income Inequality

Key Sources on the Value of Unions and the Importance of Protecting Workers’ Real Freedom to Join Together

Today is a little like Labor Day except with a twist: because of oral arguments today in the Supreme...

Fight Rising Inequality by Pushing Back on Tip Theft!

Hello from Paris everyone! I will resist here posting pictures of me eating fancy cheeses and drinking wine.