Falling Through the Cracks: Six Months After the End of adultBasic
Six months after the end of the state’s adultBasic program, few former enrollees have been able to access the...
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Bills Weaken PA Oversight of Health Insurance Rate Increases
This legislation in the House and Senate would keep more Pennsylvania consumers in the dark. With less scrutiny and...
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Statement on 2011-12 Budget: Doing Less with More
The Pennsylvania Legislature has adopted a budget that does less with more, cutting services to children while leaving most...
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Under PA House Leadership Bill, Gas Drillers Would Pay One-Fifth of What They Pay in Texas
The Pennsylvania House may vote next week on a drilling fee plan that asks Marcellus Shale drillers to pay...
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Natural Gas Drillers Pay Little in Pa. State and Local Taxes
Natural gas drillers claim they have paid hundreds of millions of dollars in Pennsylvania taxes, but data from the...
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STATEMENT: Sen. Scarnati’s Local Impact Fee Lets Drillers Off the Hook
Advocates for enacting a responsible natural gas drilling tax in Pennsylvania raised serious concerns about the proposed local impact...
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Department of Revenue Analysis Goes Well Beyond Taxes Paid by Drillers
The Department of Revenue’s new analysis obscures as much as it illuminates. The largest tax contributions in each category...
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Analysis of House Republican Budget Proposal
The Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus introduced a 2011-12 state budget proposal on May 10 that is consistent with the...
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Comparing Rep. Quinn’s Marcellus Drilling Fee to Other Plans
State Representative Marguerite Quinn (R-Bucks) introduced legislation creating a Marcellus Shale impact fee. This Reports and Briefing Papers compares...
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Memo to Newspaper Editors: Save Tobacco Settlement Dollars for Health Care
In a memo to editorial board members, Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center Director Sharon Ward wrote that policymakers should...
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A Turn for the Worse: Sen. Scarnati’s Amended Marcellus Shale Fee Plan
Senate Bill 1100 falls short, according to the PA Budget and Policy Center’s Reports and Briefing Papers on Sen....
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Drilling Fee Bills Fail to Address Pressing State Needs
Pennsylvania is the only significant gas-producing state without a drilling tax or fee on natural gas. Virtually every other...
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