Research and Publications

Pennsylvania’s economy, jobs, and unemployment continue to be among the top issues of concern for state residents in opinion...

• PA Economy

One would think that all profitable Fortune 500 companies in the United States are paying some amount in federal...

• Federal Taxes

Susan Warner of The Pew Charitable Trusts has a very interesting study out titled Philadelphia’s Changing Middle Class. The...

• Income Inequality

For a long time, we’ve been making two points about natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. One, Pennsylvania’s...

• PA Budget
• Marcellus Shale

On Wednesday, Gap Inc., which operates clothing retailers The Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy, announced that it would...

• Minimum Wage

For more than 30 years, most of the 50 states have experienced a dramatic rise in income inequality. In...

• Labor Unions
• PA Economy

Today the Economic Analysis Research Network released The Increasingly Unequal States of America: Income Inequality by State by Estelle Sommeiller...

• Income Inequality