How About a Blind Taste Test of Two Property Tax Relief Proposals?
Blind taste tests often produce surprising results. In our family, for example, the men often struggle to discern which...
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In Honest & Constructive Debate You’re Not Supposed to Make Up Stuff
Drilling industry representatives, some Republican legislators and their think tank supporters are ignoring Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s famous caution, “you...
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Giving Away the Golden Egg: Shale Tax Revenue Could Top $1 Billion by 2015-16
Here’s one estimate that Pennsylvania exceeded in 2014—gas production in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale region came in ahead of projections...
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Cutting Your Way to a More Sluggish Recovery
New data on consumption spending from the Bureau of Economic Analysis further illustrates that Pennsylvania has cut its way...
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Pennsylvania’s Revenue-Estimating Process Doesn’t Add Up
The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center’s analysis last month of the state’s 2014-15 budget cites “myriad dubious revenue sources,...
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The State of Working PA This Labor Day
Coming on the heels of a day when thousands of fast food workers in 50 U.S. cities walked off...
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Video: Debating Liquor Privatization
I am a guest on PA Newsmakers this weekend along with Katrina Anderson of the Commonwealth Foundation debating the...
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Life on Welfare: Cato Gets It Very Wrong
It’s great to be poor. That’s the finding of a Cato Institute report released this week claiming to calculate...
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Separating Fact from Fiction on Nutrition Assistance
Check out this short video separating fact from fiction in the ongoing debate over nutrition assistance for low-income Americans....
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Can the Right Afford to Acknowledge Low Upward Mobility in the U.S.?
Michael Laracy of the Annie E. Casey Foundation emailed around an opinion piece by Fareed Zakaria on the boffo...
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State Predicts Increase in Sales, Income Tax Collections
As I previously blogged here and here, Pennsylvania General Fund revenue collections are projected to grow very little in...
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Health Law Saves Consumers by Requiring Insurers to Spend Premium Dollars on Medical Care
A key reform in the Affordable Care Act requires health insurers to spend 80% to 85% of premium dollars...
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