Six-State Study Finds Industry Supporters Exaggerated Jobs Impact of Shale Drilling
Drilling in the six states that span the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations has produced far fewer new jobs...
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Little Good News for PA Jobs in September and October
One of the many lingering side effects of the shutdown of the federal government in October was a delay...
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Secretary for the Selective Use of Statistics
On September 6, Pennsylvania Labor & Industry Secretary Julia K. Hearthway chided the Patriot-News — and, indirectly, the Keystone...
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How Does Job Growth in Pennsylvania Measure Up?
In this year’s State of Working Pennsylvania, we decided to look once again at the pace of job growth...
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Just How Much Will a Fast Food Wage Increase Cost?
In The State of Working Pennsylvania 2013, we said that substantially raising the wages of fast food workers —...
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Public Benefit Programs Encourage Work
A few weeks ago, Sharon Ward explained the many problems with a report from the Cato Institute suggesting it’s...
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With Unemployment High, Pennsylvania’s Economy Has Been Creating Lots of Bad Jobs
In this year’s State of Working Pennsylvania, our annual evaluation of the health of the economy from the perspective...
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The State of Working PA This Labor Day
Coming on the heels of a day when thousands of fast food workers in 50 U.S. cities walked off...
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Separating Fact from Fiction on Nutrition Assistance
Check out this short video separating fact from fiction in the ongoing debate over nutrition assistance for low-income Americans....
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‘This Is What the Middle Class Looks Like’ … Fast Food One-day Strikes and the Next Upsurge in Unionism
“This is what democracy looks like.” Even though this chant originated with the Seattle protests against the World Trade...
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Pennsylvania, Land of Opportunity
We’re not always the “good news bears,” but today we’re thrilled to give greater visibility to a landmark new...
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Guest Post: It Wasn’t the Shale, Yinz
By Tim Stuhldreher Originally published at Tim Stuhldreher’s Blog Paul Krugman muses on why deindustrialization left Detroit a basket...
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