Research and Publications

This memo outlines how the Folmer proposal is worse than the process we have now in four important respects....

• Democracy

This policy memo shares our analysis of Senator Mike Folmer’s amendment to Senate Bill 22, Pennsylvania’s redistricting reform bill.

• Democracy

Last week, the House of Representatives voted against the troubling Farm Bill that had recently passed through the Agricultural...

• Federal Budget
• Poverty
• SNAP
• Human Services
• Federal Taxes
• U.S. Economy

The following is a first-person story written by Colten Osborne, a young man we came across in Erie, Pennsylvania,...

• Housing
• Work Requirements

As the PA General Assembly considers Governor Wolf’s request for new spending on K-12 education in the budget for...

• K-12 Education

A statewide poll commissioned by the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center shows strong support in Pennsylvania for raising the...

• Minimum Wage
• PA Economy
• Wages

In a statewide poll commissioned by the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, results show that a lack of state...

• K-12 Education