A PA Fair Share Tax could fill the budget hole left by the Reconciliation Bill
Residents and state lawmakers across the country are pushing back against anti-tax measures and looking for ways to raise...
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KRC Celebrates Pride Month 2025 with some LGBTQI+ Titans of Labor
Bayard Rustin A key strategist of the 1963 March on Washington, Bayard Rustin was a gay Black civil rights...
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Guest Blog: Reconciliation – An Overview
Also known as the Tax Reform Package (or “The One Big Beautiful Bill” in recent media), reconciliation is a...
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Follow the Money: How the Inflation Reduction Act is Rebuilding Appalachia
When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, it was heralded as the most ambitious climate and...
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The Worker and the Pope – Labor and the Church
How Leo XIII and Rerum Novarum Continue to Shape the Modern Labor Movement May 8th: 2025 – “Habemus Papam!”...
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A Not-So-Sweet 16: Pennsylvania’s Minimum Wage Is Turning 16 Years Old
With no balloons, cake, or candles in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s $7.25 per hour minimum wage has nearly reached a birthday...
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American Solidarity Forever
May Day Yesterday and Today On May 1st, much of the world pauses to recognize International Workers’ Day, a...
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From ReImagine Appalachia: If You Fund It, They Will Come: How Federal Investments Are Sparking a Clean Energy Revival in Appalachia
On April 9, 2025 ReImagine Appalachia and the Keystone Research Center released a new study “If You Fund It,...
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The Labor Movement and Earth Day
The first Earth Day, held on April 22, 1970, wasn’t an instantaneous explosion of environmental concern—it was a coordinated...
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Workers are Players Too – How Organized Labor Build Major League Baseball
We have finally reached that part of the year where (in the northeast at least), spring finally peeps out...
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Union Organizing in the Southern Auto Industry and Beyond: An Update
For decades, the United Auto Workers (UAW) has struggled to establish a foothold outside the “Big Three” (GM, Ford,...
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Deju Vu for Pennsylvanians? Cuts to Government Employment Could Hurt Job Growth for Everyone
Over the past few weeks, national attention has focused on the unprecedented threats of the so-called Department of Government...
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