Education Is the New Black
A new poll out confirms the public’s support for more education funding and a new education funding formula. The...
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Morning Must Reads: A Natural Gas Severance Tax This Year?
Momentum is building to enact a natural gas severance tax in Pennsylvania. But don’t take it from us. The...
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A Guide to the Creative Use of Numbers by the Business Lobby
The debate over raising the minimum wage can quickly become a fog of studies and numbers. So in the...
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A Look at Shale Drilling’s Mixed Legacy
Natural gas drilling has transformed two Pennsylvania counties with the greatest development activities, for better and for worse. That...
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Houston, We Have a (Revenue) Problem
Pennsylvania General Fund revenue collections fell short of estimate, for practical purposes, by more than $100 million in what...
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Apocalypse Not: Study Finds Severance Tax Unlikely to Scare Away Drillers from Marcellus Shale
By Parth Vaishnav (left) & Nathaniel Horner (right) of Carnegie Mellon University A common argument against enacting a severance...
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NFIB’s Flawed Minimum Wage Study Doesn’t Tell Us Much
How do you know that momentum is building in the campaign to raise the minimum wage? Opponents arrive with...
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Some Major Corporations Pay Little or Nothing in State Income Taxes
What do Pennsylvania-based companies PPL, H.J. Heinz, Airgas, Allegheny Technologies, Hershey, and Comcast have in common? They each pay...
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Makers of the U.S. Unite: The UAW Vote at VW One More Time
There are three central challenges facing U.S. manufacturing today: wages are too low, employers invest too little in their...
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Understanding the Union Vote at VW in Tennessee
As you probably know, the United Auto Workers (UAW) lost a union election at a Chattanooga Volkswagen plant last...
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Looking Beyond the Kinder, Gentler Budget
With state budget hearings in the rearview mirror, I wanted to offer a few thoughts about the Governor Tom...
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Another Reality Check on PA Marcellus Shale Employment
For quite some time now, we have been putting out jobs data explaining that drilling in the Marcellus Shale...
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