Research and Publications

Halfway through the state’s fiscal year, General Fund revenues are right on target — exceeding official estimates by a...

• PA Budget
• PA Taxes

How do we get our economy growing more robustly again? It’s not through austerity — cutting government spending and...

• Jobs
• Economy
• Minimum Wage
• Wages

A decade of corporate tax cuts are a major reason that Pennsylvania is expected to have far fewer resources...

• Corporate Taxes
• PA Economy

State Representative Seth Grove of York County and business lobbyists want Pennsylvania to be the latest state to pass...

• Earned Sick Leave

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

• K-12 Education
• Democracy
• Corporate Taxes

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