Research and Publications

A few weeks ago, Sharon Ward explained the many problems with a report from the Cato Institute suggesting it’s...

• SNAP
• Jobs
• Medicaid
• Unemployment

“Pennsylvania can afford to pay more for schools and property tax relief,” testifies Sharon Ward of the Pennsylvania Budget...

• K-12 Education
• Property Taxes

In this year’s State of Working Pennsylvania, our annual evaluation of the health of the economy from the perspective...

• Recession and Recovery
• Wages
• State of Working PA
• Jobs
• PA Economy
• Unemployment

Coming on the heels of a day when thousands of fast food workers in 50 U.S. cities walked off...

• Jobs
• PA Economy
• Unemployment
• Recession and Recovery
• Wages

The State of Working Pennsylvania, Keystone’s annual Labor Day check-in on how working Pennsylvanians are faring in today‰’s economy,...

• PA Economy

I am a guest on PA Newsmakers this weekend along with Katrina Anderson of the Commonwealth Foundation debating the...

• Privatization

It’s great to be poor. That’s the finding of a Cato Institute report released this week claiming to calculate...

• Income Inequality
• Human Services
• Poverty