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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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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‘This Is What the Middle Class Looks Like’ … Fast Food One-day Strikes and the Next Upsurge in Unionism
“This is what democracy looks like.” Even though this chant originated with the Seattle protests against the World Trade...
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Pennsylvania, Land of Opportunity
We’re not always the “good news bears,” but today we’re thrilled to give greater visibility to a landmark new...
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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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$1 Trillion in Student Loan Debt Hampering Young Entrepreneurs
It appears more and more American college graduates are declining to start their own businesses due to the rising...
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Pennsylvania’s Unremarkable Private-Sector Job Performance
Philadelphia Daily News Columnist John Baer is right to suggest that Governor Corbett’s jobs performance since January 2011 is...
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Connecting the Dots Between Unemployment and Wage Growth
Colin Gordon of the Iowa Policy Project (and the Tell Tale Chart) has a new graphic illustrating the connection...
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For the Long-Term Unemployed, the Jobs Just Aren’t There
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released new data on the duration of unemployment by state. In 2010, 26%...
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