Research and Publications

Kristen Dama is an attorney at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia. She works on human service issues. This moving...

• Health Care

One of the fascinating / distressing things about the health care debate on Facebook is that it’s bringing the...

• Health Care

Pennsylvania must brace itself for a substantial decrease in federal Medicaid payments that would devastate our state budget and...

• Health Care
• Safety Net
• PA Budget

This piece was originally posted on the Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog here: http://www.epi.org/blog/trump-apprenticeship-proposal/. Everyone loves apprenticeships (including me)...

• Unemployment
• Jobs
• Workforce Development

Nearly 70 Pennsylvania organizations signed on to the letter below asking members of the Pennsylvania congressional delegation to reject...

• Federal Taxes
• Federal Budget

The main reason that Pennsylvania’s tax system is so upside down — with the top 1% paying only 4.3%...

• Income Inequality
• PA Budget
• Poverty

Pennsylvania has been considering a severance tax on natural gas for years. Here are four reasons it is long...

• Marcellus Shale
• PA Budget