Seattle Has Adopted a City Minimum Wage of $15 an Hour
Type: BlogAuthor: Mark Price
Date: June 06, 2014
As you may have heard by now, Seattle has adopted a city minimum wage of $15 an hour. As...
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Author: Mark Price
Date: June 06, 2014
Gas Production Booms, Drillers’ Corporate Tax Payments Plummet
Type: Reports and PapersDate: June 06, 2014
Pennsylvania should move ahead with a severance tax that is comparable to that imposed by neighboring West Virginia. General...
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More Bark than Bite: Feds Back Pennsylvania’s Gross Receipts Tax after Inspector General Report
Type: BlogAuthor: Sharon Ward
Date: June 05, 2014
CMS Is Not Asking for Its Money Back A report issued by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at...
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Four Actuaries and a Pension Plan: Tobash Plan Is a Non-Starter
Type: BlogAuthor: Stephen Herzenberg
Date: June 03, 2014
Last week, the Public Employee Retirement Commission (PERC) released a cover memo and reports from four actuaries analyzing the...
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Minimum Wage Increases Didn’t Hurt Job Growth in Other States; It’s Time for PA to Join the Club
Type: BlogAuthor: Natalie Sabadish
Date: June 02, 2014
Last week, Michigan passed a bill to increase its minimum wage from $7.40 an hour to $9.25 an hour...
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Is Yet Another Vehicle to Expand Payday Lending in the Hopper in Harrisburg?
Type: BlogAuthor: Mark Price
Date: June 02, 2014
First there was HB2191 in 2012, followed by SB975 in 2013, and now Senator Jake Corman is soliciting his...
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Analysis of Tobash Proposal: Moving Backwards on Pension Reform
Type: Reports and PapersAuthor: Stephen Herzenberg
Date: June 02, 2014
This policy brief analyzes the impact of the latest pension proposal from Representative Mike Tobash. In analyzing the Corbett-Tobash...
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