Research and Publications

Yesterday, the Wolf administration announced that it is changing the state’s course on Medicaid expansion. Under Governor Corbett, Pennsylvania...

• Health Care
• Medicaid

Enacting a severance tax on natural gas would raise much-needed funding for education, environmental, and other critical services and...

• Severance Tax

Across the state, public school enrollment continued its long, downward trend with a 2.9% decrease since 2007-08.  This isn’t...

• Education

There are two fresh proposals circulating in the Pennsylvania State Senate this week which seek to raise the minimum...

• Minimum Wage

Act 1 may not be perfect, but it has slowed the growth of school property taxes. Since the passage...

• Property Taxes

General Fund revenue collections exceeded revenue targets by $90 million in January, pushing the fiscal year-to-date revenue surplus to...

• PA Economy

More than two dozen advocacy and direct-service organizations from across the Commonwealth, including the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center,...

• Poverty