Research and Publications

Last Friday, June 8, the Senate Agricultural Committee came out with its plan for the Senate Farm Bill. Keeping...

• SNAP
• Human Services
• U.S. Economy

Governor Tom Wolf signed an executive order yesterday aimed at combating pay equity in Pennsylvania. The order, called “Equal...

• Unemployment
• Wages
• Jobs
• Race and Gender

We at the PBPC have been very critical of the effort to pass SB22, a constitutional amendment to change...

• Redistricting
• Democracy

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

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

• Housing
• Work Requirements