Research and Publications

2013-2014 Pennsylvania State Budget presents $113 million in reduced spending for public school pensions and school employees‰’ Social Security...

• Democracy
• PA Budget

Payday lenders convinced state House Republican leaders to slip a line into a Fiscal Code bill needed to implement...

• Consumer Protection

The School Code (House Bill 1141, PN 2200) establishes a new basic education funding ‰”formula‰” with a base distribution...

• K-12 Education
• PA Budget
• Higher Education

The PA budget for 2013-2014 fails to adequately address the enormity of the funding crisis facing Pennsylvania schools. Eighty...

• PA Budget
• Health Care

Colin Gordon of the Iowa Policy Project (and the Tell Tale Chart) has a new graphic illustrating the connection...

• PA Economy
• Unemployment
• Wages
• Jobs
• Economic Development

The Pennsylvania Senate on Sunday approved legislation to expand Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of low-income Pennsylvanians in accordance...

• Medicaid
• PA Budget
• Health Care

The Philadelphia School District will receive new state funding, but with strings attached that leave some key decisions in...

• K-12 Education
• PA Budget