Bursting the Shale Jobs’ Balloon
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry has corrected “glaring errors” in the way it counts jobs related to...
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Reflections on the One-Day Work Week
At the Keystone Research Center, we closed the office last week except for Friday, Jan. 2, giving our team...
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New Study Suggests Low Wages Imperil Future of U.S. Manufacturing and Innovation
Debates about manufacturing wages and jobs require the ability to walk and chew gum at the same time. Let’s...
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Pennsylvania Is Now Dead Last in Job Growth Since January 2011
As we reported on Monday, new jobs data for September were not encouraging with payrolls in Pennsylvania falling 9,600...
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September Marks Three Consecutive Months of Job Loss in Pennsylvania
On Friday the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry reported that the unemployment rate fell from 5.6% to 5.7%...
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A Funny Thing Happened to our Data on the Way to Philadelphia
If you have been following this gubernatorial election, or just watching television, you might have noticed that the Wolf...
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Another Thumbs Down on Ride Sharing…Unless It Catalyzes New (OK, Old) Union Forms
A good friend earlier this week shared this story on ride sharing. The story underscores the strong parallels between...
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August Job Growth Disappoints in Pennsylvania
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning that nonfarm payrolls in Pennsylvania grew by 100 jobs in August...
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Towards a Moral Economy: Is NOW the Time?
The Philadelphia Daily News’ Will Bunch had an uplifting column this past Sunday on Saturday’s “Moral March” in...
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PA Saw Less Job Growth, Shrinking Labor Force in 2013
With Pennsylvania’s December jobs report out today, we are able to draw a few conclusions about job growth in...
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Fuzzy Shale Jobs Math. One More Time…in PA’s New State Energy Plan
With the Corbett administration rolling out a new State Energy Plan today, I’ll leave it to the energy policy...
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More Economy Boosting Jobs, Less Austerity
How do we get our economy growing more robustly again? It’s not through austerity — cutting government spending and...
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