America’s Food Security Program in Danger
Type: Fact SheetDate: July 11, 2013
Cutting SNAP will increase hunger and poverty, hurt our local economy, and shift the pain of budget cuts onto...
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Date: July 11, 2013
Pennsylvania’s Unremarkable Private-Sector Job Performance
Type: BlogAuthor: Stephen Herzenberg
Date: July 11, 2013
Philadelphia Daily News Columnist John Baer is right to suggest that Governor Corbett’s jobs performance since January 2011 is...
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Everything You Need to Know about 2013-14 Budget
Type: BlogAuthor: Sharon Ward
Date: July 10, 2013
The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center has released a full detailed analysis of the 2013-14 state budget plan spending...
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- K-12 Education
- PA Budget
- Pensions
- Privatization
- Recession and Recovery
- Transportation
House Derails Medicaid Expansion But the Fight Goes On
Type: BlogAuthor: Sharon Ward
Date: July 09, 2013
The Pennsylvania House rejected an effort by Representative Gene DiGirolamo (R-Bucks) today to revive the Medicaid expansion before the...
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Small Steps Toward Reform But Special Tax Breaks Remain
Type: BlogAuthor: Sharon Ward
Date: July 09, 2013
Among the final pieces of the 2013-14 budget package now before the Governor is a Tax Code bill that...
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Analysis: Final State Budget Fails to Make Up Lost Ground
Type: Budget AnalysisDate: July 09, 2013
2013-2014 Pennsylvania State Budget presents $113 million in reduced spending for public school pensions and school employees’ Social Security...
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Payday Lenders Make Few Friends in PA Senate
Type: BlogAuthor: Mark Price
Date: July 08, 2013
Payday lenders convinced state House Republican leaders to slip a line into a Fiscal Code bill needed to implement...
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