The State of Working Pennsylvania
Below is the third in a series of excerpts from The State of Working Pennsylvania 2015 report, released by...
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Significant Excess Capacity Remains in PA Labor Market
Below is the second in a series of excerpts from The State of Working Pennsylvania 2015 report, released by...
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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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Latest Income Numbers in Historical Perspective
Colin Gordon of the Iowa Policy Project has taken recently-released 2012 figures on the incomes of the top 1%...
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PA’s Health Insurance Coverage Rates Still Below Pre-recession Levels
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) show that Pennsylvanians have not made up for...
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A Recovery for Some But Not All
As Mark Price noted yesterday, there has been a shocking rise in income inequality since 2009.
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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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America’s Food Security Program in Danger
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday voted 216-208 to pass a bill that separates agricultural support programs from...
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Everything You Need to Know about 2013-14 Budget
The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center has released a full detailed analysis of the 2013-14 state budget plan spending...
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