STATEMENT: More than 300,000 Pennsylvania Workers Left Behind by New Trump Admin Rule on Overtime for Salaried Workers
HARRISBURG — Today, the U.S. Department of Labor announced its final overtime rule, which will set the threshold under which salaried...
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RELEASE – State of Working PA 2019: Troubling Long-Term Trends Continue, But Businesses Offer an Opening for a Shift
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HARRISBURG, PA – Ahead of Labor Day weekend, the Keystone Research Center today released the...
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STATEMENT: In Response to PA GOP Attacks on Working Pennsylvanians and Today’s Budget Day of Action
HARRISBURG—PA Budget and Policy Center director Marc Stier made the following statement in response to a press release sent...
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A $15/HR Minimum Wage Increase by 2025 Would Raise Wages for Over 2 Million Workers in PA. Who Are They?
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. The Demographic Impacts of a Minimum Wage Increase Wrapped into his 2019 budget...
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Low Teacher Pay Shortchanges Teachers—and Students—in Pennsylvania
We wanted to highlight the Economic Policy Institute’s new analysis on the teacher pay gap and explain why it should encourage...
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Teacher Weekly Wage Penalty Reached a Record High in 2018
We wanted to share the Economic Policy Institute’s new analysis on the teacher pay gap and explain why it should encourage...
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A New Proposal Would Give a Much-Needed Boost to Pennsylvania’s Working Families
Senator Bob Casey today joined Senators Sherrod Brown, Michael Bennet, Dick Durbin, and Ron Wyden to introduce the Working...
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STATEMENT: About 300,000 Pennsylvania Workers Left Behind by New Trump Admin Proposal on Overtime for Salaried Workers
Last week, the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) unveiled a proposal to set the overtime salary threshold, beneath...
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Stuck on the Bottom Rung of the Wage Ladder
While previous studies of the upward mobility of low-wage workers have relied on economic data for the United States...
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Low Child Care Wages and High Turnover Shortchange Pennsylvania Children: Findings from Surveys of Child Care Providers in Allegheny County, Southeast Pennsylvania and York County
This research paper summarizes the findings from Gateway child care provider surveys which were conducted to measure key determinants...
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Do Lower Prevailing Wages Reduce Public Construction Costs?
Opponents of prevailing wage laws often argue that repealing or weakening these laws will lower the cost of public...
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Fuzzy Math in Philadelphia: Edison Overstates Savings Possible Through Outsourcing School District Maintenance and Operations Work
Under contract to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Edison Schools Inc. prepared an 80-page assessment to the Philadelphia schools and...
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