Research and Publications

In the 1990s, the Pennsylvania General Assembly began deregulating basic utility services, including the electricity, telephone, and natural gas...

• Infrastructure

This Reports and Briefing Papers summarizes the findings from the Gateway child care provider surveys. When possible, these findings...

• Safety Net

It is widely suspected that few child care workers obtain health benefits through their job and that this contributes...

• Health Care
• K-12 Education

This Reports and Briefing Papers examines a flexible tax proposal that could help address the three critical problems linked...

• K-12 Education
• Property Tax

This chartbook benchmarks Pennsylvania state and local government appropriations for public two-year colleges- “community colleges”- against that of other...

• PA Budget
• Higher Education

In 2000, Allegheny County Council considered living wage legislation. The proposed ordinance would require that several groups of workers,...

• Minimum Wage
• Wages

“The State of Working Pennsylvania 2000” is the Keystone Research Center’s fifth annual survey of the economic condition of...

• PA Economy