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...
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STATEMENT: Budget Plan Approved by the House Appropriations Committee
The budget approved by the Republican members of the House Appropriations Committee does basically what we expected. Most of...
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The Budget Pennsylvania Needs Now: A Preview and Analysis of the Full-Year 2020 Budget
Download or print full document. No matter where we live, what we look like, whether we are native-born or...
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Pa. is in the throes of a COVID-19 recession. Wolf, lawmakers need to step up for working families
Originally published by the PA Capital-Star on November 17, 2020 No matter where we live, what we look like,...
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Pittsburgh’s City Budget Should Give Priority to Those Most Impacted by our Current Crisis
This year has redefined what it means to reckon with our past, advocate for better in our present, and...
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PRESS RELEASE: Keystone Research Center Releases 2020 Report on Working Families, COVID-19 Crisis
Contact: Kirstin Snow at snow@pennbpc.org, 215-510-9336 Keystone Research Center Releases Annual Report on Working Families, COVID-19 Crisis “State...
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The U.S. Has Mismanaged COVID and Has More Deaths and Higher Joblessness as a Result
The U.S. and Pennsylvania have had extensive debate in recent months about whether policymakers should focus on reducing the...
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Why The Republicans In Harrisburg Won’t Fight COVID-19
COVID-19 cases are rising again across the country and in our state. Cases in Pennsylvania are averaging 1,552 per...
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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...
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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...
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Kitchen Table Issues and the 2020 Presidential Election
There has been a lot of discussion about character issues in this election. But kitchen table issues are likely...
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The Choice Before Us: New Deal or Depression
We have been told recently that the our presidential election choice is “boom or depression.” That seems on target,...
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