Research and Publications

Every year the Tax Foundation, a conservative think tank, releases a report about “Tax Freedom Day,” a made-up day...

• Federal Taxes
• Federal Budget

Senator Bob Casey today joined Senators Sherrod Brown, Michael Bennet, Dick Durbin, and Ron Wyden to introduce the Working...

• General Policy
• Economy
• Federal Taxes
• Poverty
• Wages
• Income Inequality
• Jobs
• Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Originally published at Penn-Live on April 09, 2019 Spend a little time talking to Republican (and some Democratic) legislators about...

• Minimum Wage
• Minimum Wage Basics

HARRISBURG—Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center director Marc Stier made the following statement regarding the resurfacing of SB22, a bill...

• Democracy

INTRODUCTION Some important things have changed in Pennsylvania politics as a result of the 2018 election. But the basic...

• PA Budget

State tax systems across the United States vary tremendously in their structure, resulting in varied impacts on income inequality,...

• PA Taxes

Last week, the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) unveiled a proposal to set the overtime salary threshold, beneath...

• Jobs
• Fiscal and Monetary Policy
• Wages