Research and Publications

Over the last couple months, we at the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center have been holding community conversations to...

• Medicaid
• SNAP
• Human Services

The Economic Policy Institute’s update to its signature Family Budget Calculator shows what is required for families to attain...

• PA Budget
• PA Economy
• Poverty

The effort by the General Assembly’s Republican leaders to have the United States Supreme Court block the Pennsylvania Supreme...

• Courts
• Redistricting

Prior to the 1980s, Giant Eagle provided family-sustaining careers to its employees. Over time, however, the company shifted to...

• Minimum Wage
• Wages
• Labor Unions

Today is a little like Labor Day except with a twist: because of oral arguments today in the Supreme...

• Wages
• Income Inequality
• Unions
• U.S. Economy

(NOTE: at a future date we plan to address the substance of the op-ed referred to below by Anthony...

• Higher Education

Last year, Mayor Jim Kenney boldly called for the School Reform Commission (SRC) to be disbanded and for control...

• Philadelphia
• PA Taxes
• Education