The PA House GOP Budget Plan to Raid Special Funds Explained
The Pennsylvania House Republican plan to balance the budget by, among other things, raiding other state funds is something...
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Where the Budget Stands
As legislators return to Harrisburg after a far too long vacation, it’s time to take stock of the state...
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Some bodice-ripping prose from the State of Working Pennsylvania you may have missed!
Ok, a bodice-ripping romance novel is not how anyone would describe the State of Working Pennsylvania, but now that...
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Pay No Attention to the Budget Cuts Behind the Curtain: the PA House GOP Budget Plan
For the last few weeks, we have been told a Republican plan to balance the budget was coming, one...
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State of Working Pennsylvania 2017
On Thursday we released the 22nd edition of the State of Working Pennsylvania in which we review the current...
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Let’s Not Let Cranky Uncle Mike Raid the State Budget
Last November we elected a President who reminds many of us of a cranky uncle who sits at the...
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Evidently You Can Make This Stuff Up: The Commonwealth Foundation (and the House GOP) on the State Budget
The Commonwealth Foundation, in recent op-eds and website posts, has presented a misleading analysis of the state budget, one...
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A Victory for Seattle “For-Hire” Drivers…and for the Next Labor Movement
One regular theme on this blog is that area-wide unions that lift wages and benefits in industries that cannot...
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Don’t Take Skinny Repeal Lightly — The Dangers of the “Just Pass Something” Mentality
As I write this, the Senate is moving in a somewhat haphazard way to a vote on what has...
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Budget Deal: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
It’s time for Speaker of the House Mike Turzai to come back from his fundraising trip and call the...
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Senate to Choose Between Health Catastrophe or Something Worse
Mitch McConnell and his Republican allies have one more trick up their sleeves to try to get some health...
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STATEMENT: On the State of PA Budget Negotiations
Marc Stier, director of the PA Budget and Policy Center, made the following statement on the current state of...
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