Research and Publications

This press memo, released on September 5, 2017, details how the budget plan released by a group of Republican...

• PA Budget
• Infrastructure

On Thursday we released the 22nd edition of the State of Working Pennsylvania in which we review the current...

• PA Economy
• State of Working PA

In August of 2017, some Republican members of the House of Representatives were readying a plan to borrow massively...

• Democracy
• PA Budget

Last November we elected a President who reminds many of us of a cranky uncle who sits at the...

• PA Budget

The Commonwealth Foundation, in recent op-eds and website posts, has presented a misleading analysis of the state budget, one...

• PA Budget

Our previous two briefs on higher education documented the importance of public universities to upward mobility in Pennsylvania and...

• Higher Education
• Rural Pennsylvania

One regular theme on this blog is that area-wide unions that lift wages and benefits in industries that cannot...

• Wages
• Jobs
• Labor Unions
• U.S. Economy