Research and Publications

Blind taste tests often produce surprising results. In our family, for example, the men often struggle to discern which...

• PA Budget
• Property Taxes

Drilling industry representatives, some Republican legislators and their think tank supporters are ignoring Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s famous caution, “you...

• Marcellus Shale
• K-12 Education
• PA Budget

On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Medicare and Medicaid programs that gave millions of...

• Social Security
• Seniors
• Federal Taxes
• Federal Budget
• Poverty
• Health Care

Yesterday, Representative Turzai, speaker of the House, said that Republicans may attempt to override Governor Wolf’s veto of the...

Pennsylvania is highly reliant on local property taxes to fund its public schools, ranking near the bottom of all...

• Property Taxes

A new study by the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University finds that people living near active gas drilling...

• Marcellus Shale

One sticking point in Pennsylvania’s budget battle is whether the next state budget needs to improve the state’s fiscal...

• PA Budget