Federal Climate Infrastructure Funds Spur Job-Creating Investments in PA, OH, WV and KY
At the end of 2023 more than 16 months have passed since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act...
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In 2024, Will PA Finally Forge Ahead, Like Our Neighbors, By Raising Our Minimum Wage?
As we close out 2023 and usher in the new year, Pennsylvania stands out in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region for...
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The Early Returns Show Big Clean Manufacturing Investments in Coal Country
As we come to the end of 2023, 16½ months have passed since the passage of the Inflation Reduction...
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Fair Taxation Can Help Achieve a More Just Pittsburgh
Over the past several years, federal funding via the American Rescue Plan (ARP) has temporarily boosted City of Pittsburgh...
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Towards a Pittsburgh for All: An Analysis of Mayor Gainey’s First Budget Proposal
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RELEASE: Using Federal Broadband Funding to Create a ReImagined Appalachia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 6, 2022 Contact: Kirstin Snow, snow@pennbpc.org, or Virginia Alvino Young, virginia@sequalconsulting.com, 714-267-1623 Read the report...
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Appalachia Needs Build Back Better, the Climate Infrastructure, Jobs and Workforce Support Package
Originally published on reimagineapplachia.org, December 16, 2021. For more than a century, Appalachia has been exploited by absentee...
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An End-of-Year Gift for PA Construction Workers: Tens of 1,000s of Jobs from the Infrastructure Bill
As 2021 ends, we are taking stock of what the federal government achieved this year. (See our list of...
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The Ten Worst PA Legislative Initiatives of 2021
The year coming to an end will go down as among the worst in the long history of the...
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The 2021 Top 10 List of Federal Policy Victories
President Biden, operating with a razor-thin Democratic majority in the United States Congress, did not get everything he wanted...
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For Your Holiday Gift to Working People, Encourage Your Local Starbucks Baristas to Unionize!
Over the past few weeks, Starbucks workers in and around Buffalo, New York, have begun to unionize. As noted...
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Fair Districts 2; Gerrymandering 0
The Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission released new district maps for the Pennsylvania House and Senate today. As we predicted,...
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