Year 2010

Good Jobs, Strong Industries, a Better Pennsylvania: Towards a 21st-Century State Economic Development Policy

Pennsylvania lawmakers today face two challenging pressures that are difficult to reconcile: a) a deep recession that has eroded...

Poverty holds steady for Pennsylvania, although some communities see increases. Unemployment compensation played a pivotal role in blunting the...

According to The U.S. Census Bureau, the number of individuals in poverty and without health insurance increased and median...

Pennsylvania second only to Michigan in loss of employer health care coverage. Despite more Pennsylvania children losing employer coverage,...

More and more Pennsylvanians are finding that a job doesn’t guarantee health benefits,” said Sharon Ward, Director of the...

Nearly 43,000 Pennsylvanians enrolled in adultBasic will lose their health insurance early next year unless quick action is taken...

The Community Health Reinvestment (CHR) Agreement is due to expire, which would cut the primary funding source for adultBasic,...

The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center examines severance tax policies in Texas and Arkansas as the gas industry ramps...

The General Assembly is now considering several proposals to enact a tax on natural gas production (called a severance...

The Pennsylvania General Assembly is drafting legislation to institute a severance tax on the natural gas extracted from the...