Happy Birthday, Medicare and Medicaid
On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Medicare and Medicaid programs that gave millions of...
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CFPB Owes Consumers a Strong Federal Payday Lending Rule
Keystone Research Center was among more than 75 organizations in 14 states and the District of Columbia that signed...
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Report Ranks Pa. 23rd Among States, Gives It C+ Grade, for Status of Women
A new report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research ranked the 50 states and the District of Columbia...
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Sometimes Persistence Pays Off
You may have seen in the news this week that Governor Tom Wolf eliminated the so-called asset test, which...
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The State of School Funding Inequality in PA
The Education Trust, an independent national education policy organization, recently released a report on the nation’s growing funding inequalities...
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Making Work Pay Coalition Forms to Help Working Families
More than two dozen advocacy and direct-service organizations from across the Commonwealth, including the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center,...
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PA’s Tax System Grows More Unfair: Low-Income Pay Price
Pennsylvania often falls near the bottom of state rankings—for instance, 47th in job growth and 48th in funding for...
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Number of Poor Pennsylvanians High, Income Growth Not Widely Shared
Poverty remained high in the commonwealth last year, highlighting that many residents have not yet recovered from the recession...
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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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Life on Welfare: Cato Gets It Very Wrong
It’s great to be poor. That’s the finding of a Cato Institute report released this week claiming to calculate...
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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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Nearly 1.8 Million in PA Will See Food Assistance Cut
Nutrition assistance is our nation’s first line of defense against hunger and a powerful tool to help keep families...
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