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The State of Working Pennsylvania 2020

Executive Summary Since the spread of COVID-19 accelerated in mid-March of this year, the sharp decline in U.S. economic...

News flash: extending enhanced federal unemployment benefits, due to expire today, won’t discourage workers from returning to their jobs,...

STATEMENT: U.S. Senate Republicans’ Pandemic Relief Proposal Is an Inadequate Response to the Current Crisis and Insufficient to Assist...

July 23, 2020 Pennsylvania Legislative Leader, Policy Experts, & Residents Impacted by COVID Crisis Call for Senate Action...

MEMO TO: The United States Congressional Delegation from Pennsylvania FROM: Members of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania DATE: Monday,...

The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the inequities and inadequacies that exist in our Commonwealth, from the precarity of...

The economy, almost literally, is dropping like a stone. This blog summarizes the most recent evidence and points to...

As COVID-19 hurtles us towards a global recession, Pennsylvania will need to make difficult decisions about how to handle...

A recent study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington projects the...

We were in the last two weeks of work on this analysis of the governor’s proposed budget for the...