Testimony: The Best Way to Improve Philadelphia’s Business Climate? Fund the Schools.
This is the Testimony that Sharon Ward presented to the Philadelphia City Council Finance Committee on December 11, 2013...
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Report: Exaggerating the Employment Impacts of Shale Drilling: How and Why
Exaggerated claims are dispelled in this Reports and Research Papers, which sheds light on the truth behind job growth...
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Property Tax Elimination Bill Threatens Long-term Public School Funding
House Bill 76 and Senate Bill 76 would create a funding gap that leaves Pennsylvania’s students permanently behind. Pennsylvania...
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Census Data: PA’s Health Insurance Coverage Rates Still Below Pre-recession Levels
PA Budget and Policy Center highlights new census data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS). Results...
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A Look at Other States Shows Marcellus Impact Fee Shortchanges Pennsylvanians
Pennsylvania enacted an ”impact fee” on natural gas wells drilled into Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale that generates a relatively small...
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Analysis: Final State Budget Fails to Make Up Lost Ground
2013-2014 Pennsylvania State Budget presents $113 million in reduced spending for public school pensions and school employees’ Social Security...
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A Closer Look at Property Tax Plans and What They Mean for Pa. Schools
Property taxes have been a subject of much debate in Pennsylvania, and efforts to reform them have heated up...
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Webinar: What’s At Stake for PA Schools in Property Tax Elimination Proposal
Hear firsthand from Mark Ryan of the Independent Fiscal Office and Sharon Ward of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy...
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Webinar: Latest on Healthy PA, Medicaid Expansion, and Health Insurance Marketplace
This webinar provides the latest on the Health Insurance Marketplace and outlines Governor Corbett’s Healthy PA plan and what’s...
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Corporate Tax Cuts Help Put State in the Red
A decade of corporate tax cuts are a major reason that Pennsylvania is expected to have far fewer resources...
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Pensionomics: Public Pensions Fuel Economic Activity Across Pa.
Public pension benefits earned by Pennsylvania school and state employees inject millions of dollars into regional and county economies...
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Pension Primer #4: There You Go Again … Governor’s Proposal Delays Public Pension Payments, Repeating Short-Sighted Practices That Drove Up Pension Debt
As Pennsylvania policymakers, media, and citizens evaluate Governor Tom Corbett’s pension proposal unveiled February 5, 2013, the Keystone Research...
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