Small Revenue Shortfall Predicted for 2013-14 But No Need to Panic — Yet
Pennsylvania is staring at a likely revenue shortfall of more than $100 million come June when the current fiscal...
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PA Saw Less Job Growth, Shrinking Labor Force in 2013
With Pennsylvania’s December jobs report out today, we are able to draw a few conclusions about job growth in...
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Fuzzy Shale Jobs Math. One More Time…in PA’s New State Energy Plan
With the Corbett administration rolling out a new State Energy Plan today, I’ll leave it to the energy policy...
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Education Love Fest Starts, But Is It The Real Thing?
In the weeks leading up to the release of a proposed state budget in February, governors typically schedule photo...
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It’s Great to Have Gas
A new report out from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University gives Pennsylvania low marks for its finances,...
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Don’t Give Up The Fight
With the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty at hand, it is a good time to reflect on...
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State Revenue Collections Still on Track, but Revenue Surplus Is Now Gone
Halfway through the state’s fiscal year, General Fund revenues are right on target — exceeding official estimates by a...
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More Economy Boosting Jobs, Less Austerity
How do we get our economy growing more robustly again? It’s not through austerity — cutting government spending and...
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PA Should Not Pre-Empt Progress on Earned Sick Leave
State Representative Seth Grove of York County and business lobbyists want Pennsylvania to be the latest state to pass...
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A $15-Per-Hour Fast-Food Wage Gets the Time of Day
The second in an occasional series on reducing inequality In the first post in this series, I suggested that...
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Are Economic Elites Awaking to the Need to Do Something About Inequality?
The first in an occasional series on reducing inequality Are American opinion leaders and policymakers finally ready for a...
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Many Core Drilling Jobs Existed Before Emergence of Hydrofracking
It’s been nearly two weeks since we released a report with the Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative finding that drilling...
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