Giving Away the Golden Egg: Shale Tax Revenue Could Top $1 Billion by 2015-16
Here’s one estimate that Pennsylvania exceeded in 2014—gas production in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale region came in ahead of projections...
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Cutting Your Way to a More Sluggish Recovery
New data on consumption spending from the Bureau of Economic Analysis further illustrates that Pennsylvania has cut its way...
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Pennsylvania’s Revenue-Estimating Process Doesn’t Add Up
The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center’s analysis last month of the state’s 2014-15 budget cites “myriad dubious revenue sources,...
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$1.3 Billion Less for 2014-15 Budget According to IFO
On May 1, the Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) released updated revenue estimates for the remainder of 2013-14 and...
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Business Tax Cuts Slow PA Revenue Growth, Creating Future Budget Gaps
The Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) released its five-year economic and budget outlook on Thursday, and the picture is...
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High Road Restaurant Owners Speak Out for Higher Minimum Wage
A few weeks ago, we responded to criticism about the feasibility of a $15-per-hour wage for fast food workers....
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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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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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Can the Right Afford to Acknowledge Low Upward Mobility in the U.S.?
Michael Laracy of the Annie E. Casey Foundation emailed around an opinion piece by Fareed Zakaria on the boffo...
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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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