Policy Brief

The PA Department of Labor and Industry’s Newly Proposed Minimum Wage Regulations: An Explainer

In late November, PA Department of Labor & Industry Secretary Jennifer Berrier announced proposed regulations regarding tipped work and...

Economic, Racial, and Ethnic Inequality in Pennsylvania School Funding

It is well known that Pennsylvania’s K-12 schools are inadequately and inequitably funded. But the extent of the problem...

A Quarter Century of Decline: School Funding In Pennsylvania 1993-94 to 2019-2020

After controlling for inflation in education costs, Pennsylvania’s public school districts are funded below the funding level they were...

Uncovering Pennsylvania’s School Funding Disparity by Income

Relative to what they need, Pennsylvania’s poorest school districts receive 35% less funding than its richest. The incredible inequities...

Considerations on American Rescue Plan Funds for Pennsylvania’s Local Governments

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Small Businesses and Workers Still Need Help

The state budget enacted in late June has two glaring and interrelated missing pieces: it provides little support for...

The Trouble with TABOR

The Republican leadership of the House of Representatives announced on Friday, March 19, that it plans to bring to...

REPORT: Pennsylvania Distributes Emergency K-12 School Funding Backwards – The Fewest Dollars Go To School Districts With the Greatest Need

REPORT: Pennsylvania Distributes Emergency K-12 School Funding Backwards—The Fewest Dollars Go to School Districts With the Greatest Need Read...

How the General Assembly Can Try to Steal the Election, Why It Would Be Wrong to Do So, and How to Stop It

There has been loose talk among right-wing activists calling on the General Assembly to intervene in the choice of...

The General Assembly Cannot Unilaterally Stop Mail-In Ballots From Being Counted

Right-wing advocates and Trump supporters are urging the General Assembly to take action next week to override the Pennsylvania...

Pennsylvania’s Essential Workforce is Disproportionately Women and People of Color: Demographics of Pennsylvania’s Essential Workers

Choose Lives, Not Money: On a Proposed Amendment A04895 to SB 327, PN 1436

Governor Wolf has ordered all Pennsylvanians to stay at home except when necessary to engage in “tasks essential to...