Pennsylvania to Expand Medicaid Beyond Healthy PA
Yesterday, the Wolf administration announced that it is changing the state’s course on Medicaid expansion. Under Governor Corbett, Pennsylvania...
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2015 Could be the Year of the Natural Gas Severance Tax
Enacting a severance tax on natural gas would raise much-needed funding for education, environmental, and other critical services and...
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Education Fact: Public School Enrollment Falls Across PA
Across the state, public school enrollment continued its long, downward trend with a 2.9% decrease since 2007-08. This isn’t...
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Just the Facts: Sen. Wagner’s Proposal Is Not a Real Increase in Minimum Wage
There are two fresh proposals circulating in the Pennsylvania State Senate this week which seek to raise the minimum...
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January Revenues Stay on Track—Barely
General Fund revenue collections exceeded revenue targets by $90 million in January, pushing the fiscal year-to-date revenue surplus to...
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IFO Forecasts Lower Property Tax Revenue in Future
Act 1 may not be perfect, but it has slowed the growth of school property taxes. Since the passage...
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Making Work Pay Coalition Forms to Help Working Families
More than two dozen advocacy and direct-service organizations from across the Commonwealth, including the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center,...
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PA’s Tax System Grows More Unfair: Low-Income Pay Price
Pennsylvania often falls near the bottom of state rankings—for instance, 47th in job growth and 48th in funding for...
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PA Fails Low-Income Preschoolers
A national education report card gave Pennsylvania a grade of D+ and a ranking of 41st among states for...
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NY Gov Proposes Property Tax ‘Circuit Breaker’—Will PA Follow?
This week, New York governor Andrew Cuomo proposed a $1.66 billion property tax “circuit breaker” as part of his...
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For PA School Districts, the Rich Get Richer & the Poor Get Poorer
According to an Associated Press analysis, the gap between the haves and have-nots in public schools grew much worse...
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Crush Unions and You Crush the Growth in Earnings for Workers
New analysis by David Cooper and Lawrence Mishel explores differences by state in wage trends and changes in union...
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