Research and Publications

Senator Vince Hughes, Democratic chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Lindsey Williams, Democratic chair of the Senate Ed...

The party-line Commonwealth Court decision declaring mail-in ballots unconstitutional is immediately outrageous and portends a deepening crisis in our...

• Voting
• PA Constitution
• Elections

For Immediate Release   January 28, 2022   Contact: Kirstin Snow STATEMENT: Commonwealth Court Decision on Act 77 Points...

• Democracy
• Voting

Originally published by the PA Capital-Star on January 24, 2021 Those of us who have been fighting the judicial...

• Judicial Gerrymandering

On Monday, January 3, 2022, Mayor Ed Gainey was sworn into office as the 61st mayor of the City...

• Pittsburgh
• Pittsburgh Budget

For a number of years, the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center has been proposing a replacement for Pennsylvania’s Personal...

• PA Taxes
• Fair Taxation

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR This last week, we marked the anniversary of “January 6th” when insurrectionists stormed the U.S....

• Voting
• Fracking
• Gerrymandering