Research and Publications

Gov. Wolf has proposed a severance tax on the extraction of natural gas in Pennsylvania to provide funding for...

• Severance Tax
• PA Budget

The latest poll from Franklin and Marshall’s Center for Opinion Research shows that a solid majority of voters—58%—support Gov....

• K-12 Education
• PA Budget
• Property Taxes
• Marcellus Shale

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry has corrected “glaring errors” in the way it counts jobs related to...

• Unemployment
• Marcellus Shale
• Jobs

A new report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research ranked the 50 states and the District of Columbia...

• Health Care
• Wages
• Income Inequality
• Race and Gender
• Democracy
• Poverty

General Fund revenue collections exceeded official revenue targets by just under $50 million in May. This pushes the fiscal-year-to-date...

• PA Budget

Stephen Herzenberg, of the Keystone Research Center, gives testimony at the Senate Finance Committee Public Hearing on proposals to...

• Democracy

  The impact fee isn’t working for Pennsylvania, but it is for the gas drillers.  

• K-12 Education
• PA Budget
• Marcellus Shale