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In Pennsylvania, the Fair Share Tax can help turn our tax system right-side up, raising much-needed revenues while reducing...

Read the full proposal here. This paper puts forward the Fair Share Tax plan, a major step toward fixing Pennsylvania’s...

• PA Budget
• Corporate Taxes
• PA Taxes

Every year the Tax Foundation, a conservative think tank, releases a report about “Tax Freedom Day,” a made-up day...

• Federal Taxes
• Federal Budget

Senator Bob Casey today joined Senators Sherrod Brown, Michael Bennet, Dick Durbin, and Ron Wyden to introduce the Working...

• Wages
• Income Inequality
• Jobs
• Fiscal and Monetary Policy
• General Policy
• Economy
• Federal Taxes
• Poverty

Originally published at Penn-Live on April 09, 2019 Spend a little time talking to Republican (and some Democratic) legislators about...

• Minimum Wage
• Minimum Wage Basics

HARRISBURG—Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center director Marc Stier made the following statement regarding the resurfacing of SB22, a bill...

• Democracy

INTRODUCTION Some important things have changed in Pennsylvania politics as a result of the 2018 election. But the basic...

• PA Budget