Between May and September 2011, the unemployment rate in Pennsylvania increased by nine-tenths of one percentage point, to 8.3%....
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Sharon Ward of The PA Budget and Policy Center testifies before the House Finance Committee regarding state inheritance tax....
In 2011, about 20 different proposals to weaken prevailing wage laws have been introduced into the Pennsylvania Legislature. This...
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In this Reports and Briefing Papers, we analyze the August 2011 Jobs Report and detail how the weaknesses we...
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Six months after the end of the state’s adultBasic program, few former enrollees have been able to access the...
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A strong current of recent opinion suggests that there is “nothing we can do” about an economy threatening to...
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This paper investigates whether Pennsylvania public employees earn more or less than comparable private sector workers. The research shows...
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