S&P to PA: Snap Out of It
Remember when, in the movie Moonstruck, the character played by Nicholas Cage tells the character played by Cher that...
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Senate Bill Raises Marketplace and Employer-based Premiums for Most Pennsylvanians
We have been focused recently on the impact of the Senate health care bill on Medicaid, mainly because the...
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How Dumb Does Senator Toomey Think We Are?
I’m not just a practitioner of political rhetoric, but also a connoisseur of it. I can appreciate a good argument...
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State As Well As Federal Republicans Go After Medicaid
At both the state and federal level, Republican Party leaders seem to be on the warpath against Medicaid. Thankfully,...
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First Look at the 2017-18 State Budget
While we will need some time to analyze the details of the budget that the House and Senate will...
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The Republicans of My Youth Didn’t Borrow to Balance Budgets
First of two pieces of why I miss the Republicans of my youth. There are times when I miss...
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The Republicans Of My Youth Didn’t Encourage Vice
Note: This is the second of two pieces on the Republicans of my youth.. Part II: Encouraging Vice The...
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The State System of Higher Education: Pennsylvania’s Mobility Workhorses
Pennsylvania’s 14 State System of Higher Education Universities are instrumental to economic opportunity in Pennsylvania. They afford a large...
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MEMO: Effects of U.S. Senate Health Care Bill on Pennsylvania
MEMO To: Interested Parties From: Marc Stier, Director, Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center Date: June 28, 2017 Re: Effects...
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STATEMENT: PBPC On the CBO Report for the Senate Health Care Bill
Marc Stier, Director of the PA Budget and Policy Center, made the following statement following today’s release of the...
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Guest Blog Post from Det Ansinn: Why Businesses Need the ACA
Republicans often talk about the burdens of the ACA on business. So we thought it might be useful to...
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Guest Blog Post from Kristen Dama: Why We Can’t Go Back to Life Before the ACA
Kristen Dama is an attorney at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia. She works on human service issues. This moving...
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