Research and Publications

What Would an Adequate Pennsylvania Budget Look Like This Year? A really good budget for Pennsylvania would begin addressing...

• PA Budget

President Trump’s budget would make deep cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps,...

• Safety Net
• PA Budget
• Federal Budget

Roughly five years after Gov. Corbett first began an effort to eliminate guaranteed pensions for future school and state...

• Pensions
• Retirement Security

The following post was written by Heidi Holliday, Executive Director at Kansas Center for Economic Growth.  You’re welcome, America....

• U.S. Economy

The 14 four-year universities within Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education have been a pivotal engine of upward mobility...

• PA Economy
• Higher Education

Deep cuts in state funding coupled with living expenses on campus that have risen faster than tuition are threatening...

• Higher Education

Sam Brownback became governor of Kansas in 2010, just as Tom Corbett became governor of Pennsylvania. Brownback and Corbett,...

• PA Budget