STATEMENT: PBPC On the CBO Report for the Senate Health Care Bill
Marc Stier, Director of the PA Budget and Policy Center, made the following statement following today’s release of the...
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Guest Blog Post from Det Ansinn: Why Businesses Need the ACA
Republicans often talk about the burdens of the ACA on business. So we thought it might be useful to...
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Guest Blog Post from Kristen Dama: Why We Can’t Go Back to Life Before the ACA
Kristen Dama is an attorney at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia. She works on human service issues. This moving...
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Which Direction for America? What’s at Stake in the Health Care Debate?
One of the fascinating / distressing things about the health care debate on Facebook is that it’s bringing the...
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Apprenticeship Weak: Trump Proposal Fails to Tap into Apprenticeship’s Potential
This piece was originally posted on the Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog here: http://www.epi.org/blog/trump-apprenticeship-proposal/. Everyone loves apprenticeships (including me)...
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Pennsylvanians Ask PA Congressional Delegation to Reject Inhumane Cuts to Vital Federal Budget Programs
Nearly 70 Pennsylvania organizations signed on to the letter below asking members of the Pennsylvania congressional delegation to reject...
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What Is the Fair Share Tax?
The main reason that Pennsylvania’s tax system is so upside down — with the top 1% paying only 4.3%...
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A Severance Tax: The Basics
Pennsylvania has been considering a severance tax on natural gas for years. Here are four reasons it is long...
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What Would an Adequate Pennsylvania Budget Look Like This Year?
What Would an Adequate Pennsylvania Budget Look Like This Year? A really good budget for Pennsylvania would begin addressing...
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With Public Pensions Done, It’s Time Now for a Victory on Retirement Security…and a Great State Budget
Roughly five years after Gov. Corbett first began an effort to eliminate guaranteed pensions for future school and state...
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Kansas’ Experiment Yields Valuable Lessons
The following post was written by Heidi Holliday, Executive Director at Kansas Center for Economic Growth. You’re welcome, America....
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Ding Dong the Witch is Dead
Sam Brownback became governor of Kansas in 2010, just as Tom Corbett became governor of Pennsylvania. Brownback and Corbett,...
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