Congressional Republicans Rally to Herbert Hooverism: Starve the Poor, Crush the Economy!
News flash: extending enhanced federal unemployment benefits, due to expire today, won’t discourage workers from returning to their jobs,...
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STATEMENT: U.S. Senate Republicans’ Pandemic Relief Proposal Is an Inadequate Response to the Current Crisis
STATEMENT: U.S. Senate Republicans’ Pandemic Relief Proposal Is an Inadequate Response to the Current Crisis and Insufficient to Assist...
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MEMO FROM STATE LEGISLATORS: Federal Pandemic Relief and Recovery to State Governments
MEMO TO: The United States Congressional Delegation from Pennsylvania FROM: Members of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania DATE: Monday,...
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Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 Economy: An Update
This blog provides an update on the impact of the COVID crash on the Pennsylvania economy. The “good news”...
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A Status Update on Pennsylvania’s Policy Response to COVID-19: Economic Relief, Health Care and Worker Protections
The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the inequities and inadequacies that exist in our Commonwealth, from the precarity of...
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A Step Towards Pay Equity in Pennsylvania
Governor Tom Wolf signed an executive order yesterday aimed at combating pay equity in Pennsylvania. The order, called “Equal...
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Why “Get a Job!” Is Not the Answer to Decreasing Reliance on Food Stamps
“Just get a job!” I’ve heard these words yelled out of car windows when I marched alongside poor and...
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PA Leads on Overtime Pay – Where the Governor Can Act Without the State Legislature
Turns out that Gov. Wolf believes in the 40-hour week. Because he does, about 460,000 lower-paid Pennsylvania salaried workers...
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Apprenticeship Weak: Trump Proposal Fails to Tap into Apprenticeship’s Potential
This piece was originally posted on the Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog here: http://www.epi.org/blog/trump-apprenticeship-proposal/. Everyone loves apprenticeships (including me)...
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How did the Pennsylvania Labor Market Perform in 2016
Last Friday, The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry released preliminary estimates of December payrolls which show Pennsylvania created...
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On The Inaction by State Senate to Fund Unemployment Compensation Call Centers
Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center Director Marc Stier made the following statement after the state Senate failed to vote...
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Advice for the Voting Booth: Consider Who Will Support the Agenda to Raise Pennsylvania’s Pay?
The day before the election, Pennsylvanians who go to the polls tomorrow have one last chance to consider the...
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