‘How Life Changing This Will Be for People Who Thought They Would Die Without Health Insurance’
Susan Mull of Lancaster County joined health care advocates and providers Monday to preview the opening of the Health...
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Employment in Shale-related Industries Fell in Most Recent Year
I will be on the Pennsylvania Cable Network Call-In Program Tuesday discussing the latest on the impact of Marcellus...
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Property Tax Elimination Bill Threatens Long-term Public School Funding
Property tax elimination proposals have been getting a lot of attention this week, so we took a closer look...
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School Funding Should Be Harrisburg’s Top Fall Priority
On Monday, parents, school board members, and citizens from across Pennsylvania came to Harrisburg to fight for more school...
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High Road Restaurant Owners Speak Out for Higher Minimum Wage
A few weeks ago, we responded to criticism about the feasibility of a $15-per-hour wage for fast food workers....
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Property Tax Shift Bills on Their Way to House Floor for Consideration This Week
On the first day of the new legislative session and at the same time a number of education groups...
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Latest Income Numbers in Historical Perspective
Colin Gordon of the Iowa Policy Project has taken recently-released 2012 figures on the incomes of the top 1%...
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Morning Must Read: Better to Expand Medicaid
In an editorial this morning, The Philadelphia Inquirer raises a number of good questions about Governor Corbett’s Medicaid proposal...
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Secretary for the Selective Use of Statistics
On September 6, Pennsylvania Labor & Industry Secretary Julia K. Hearthway chided the Patriot-News — and, indirectly, the Keystone...
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Governor Announces Medicaid Plan
Governor Tom Corbett announced his “Healthy PA” plan Monday that would expand health coverage in Pennsylvania under the Affordable...
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PA’s Health Insurance Coverage Rates Still Below Pre-recession Levels
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) show that Pennsylvanians have not made up for...
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A Recovery for Some But Not All
As Mark Price noted yesterday, there has been a shocking rise in income inequality since 2009.
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