New Data on Jobs and Small Businesses Show the Need for American Rescue Plan
Updated April 22, 2021: Since the publishing date of this blog, there has been new state jobs data released for...
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A minimum wage hike would reverse 40-year pay stagnation for working people
Originally published in The Morning Call on March 11, 2021 Raising the minimum wage is about helping low-income workers...
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A Guide to the $1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan: UPDATE with PA-Specific Data
The American Rescue Plan, as put forward by President Biden and about to be approved by the U.S. Congress,...
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The minimum wage was created during the Great Depression. We need to raise it during the Pandemic Recession
Originally published at the PA Capital-Star on March 7, 2021 Opponents of raising the minimum wage seem to have...
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A Guide to the $1.9 Trillion Rescue Bill
The $1.9 trillion rescue bill passed by the Senate this morning provides a wide range of critical improvements to...
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Pizza and the Minimum Wage
Originally published at Penn-Live on April 09, 2019 Spend a little time talking to Republican (and some Democratic) legislators about...
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PA Needs Immediate Action From Congress to Pass the American Rescue Plan
Pennsylvania needs immediate action from Congress to pass the American Rescue Plan It’s been one year since the first...
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Expanding the Child Tax Credit as Part of Biden’s American Rescue Plan Would Reduce Poverty in PA
President Biden’s first COVID-19 relief proposal—the American Rescue Plan—includes a significant expansion of the child tax credit (CTC), increasing...
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PA Advocacy Organizations Urge Congress to Pass President Biden’s Relief Plan
On Monday, February 8, nearly three dozen organizations from across Pennsylvania sent a letter to the state’s congressional delegation,...
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Congress, State Lawmakers, Take Heed: PA’s Workers & Small Businesses Still Hurting from COVID Crash
Economists use multiple measures to assess the health of Pennsylvania’s economy. Special care is needed to identify reliable measures...
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A State EITC Could Help Fix PA’s Upside-Down Tax System
If one thing has become clear during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that workers who do essential work—like providing...
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