Research and Publications

This is the Testimony that Sharon Ward presented to the Philadelphia City Council Finance Committee on December 11, 2013...

• Corporate Taxes
• K-12 Education
• Democracy

The second in an occasional series on reducing inequality In the first post in this series, I suggested that...

• Minimum Wage

Property taxes have been a subject of much debate in Pennsylvania, and efforts to reform them have heated up...

• K-12 Education
• Property Taxes

The first in an occasional series on reducing inequality Are American opinion leaders and policymakers finally ready for a...

• Income Inequality
• Labor Unions

It’s been nearly two weeks since we released a report with the Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative finding that drilling...

• Marcellus Shale

Last week, The New York Times reported that Ron Unz, a conservative Silicon Valley millionaire and past editor of...

• Minimum Wage

One of the many lingering side effects of the shutdown of the federal government in October was a delay...

• Jobs