New Mayor, New Opportunity—for a Pittsburgh That Works for All

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

Statement: The Democratic Education Funding Plan

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

The Outrageous Decision on Vote by Mail

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

An End-of-Year Gift for PA Construction Workers: Tens of 1,000s of Jobs from the Infrastructure Bill

As 2021 ends, we are taking stock of what the federal government achieved this year. (See our list of...

The Ten Worst PA Legislative Initiatives of 2021

The year coming to an end will go down as among the worst in the long history of the...

The 2021 Top 10 List of Federal Policy Victories

President Biden, operating with a razor-thin Democratic majority in the United States Congress, did not get everything he wanted...

For Your Holiday Gift to Working People, Encourage Your Local Starbucks Baristas to Unionize!

Over the past few weeks, Starbucks workers in and around Buffalo, New York, have begun to unionize. As noted...

Fair Districts 2; Gerrymandering 0

The Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission released new district maps for the Pennsylvania House and Senate today. As we predicted,...

Here’s our Wish List for the 12 Days of Build Back Better!

President Biden’s Build Back Better plan is making its way through Congress now. The Build Back Better bill already...

Rep. Grove’s Congressional Maps Are Just More Gerrymandering

Statement by Marc Stier on Representative Seth Grove’s proposed congressional district map. The congressional district map proposed by Representative...

‘Build Back Better’ Will Create the Pennsylvania We Want and Even Help Reverse Inflation

Powerful special interests that don’t want to pay their fair share in taxes have latched onto inflation as their...

Build Back Better Will Cut Taxes For All But the Top 1% of Pennsylvanians

Thanks to our friends at the Institute on Tax and Economic Policy, we have new data on the impact...

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