How Does Job Growth in Pennsylvania Measure Up?
In this year’s State of Working Pennsylvania, we decided to look once again at the pace of job growth...
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Just How Much Will a Fast Food Wage Increase Cost?
In The State of Working Pennsylvania 2013, we said that substantially raising the wages of fast food workers —...
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Public Benefit Programs Encourage Work
A few weeks ago, Sharon Ward explained the many problems with a report from the Cato Institute suggesting it’s...
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With Unemployment High, Pennsylvania’s Economy Has Been Creating Lots of Bad Jobs
In this year’s State of Working Pennsylvania, our annual evaluation of the health of the economy from the perspective...
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The State of Working PA This Labor Day
Coming on the heels of a day when thousands of fast food workers in 50 U.S. cities walked off...
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Video: Debating Liquor Privatization
I am a guest on PA Newsmakers this weekend along with Katrina Anderson of the Commonwealth Foundation debating the...
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Life on Welfare: Cato Gets It Very Wrong
It’s great to be poor. That’s the finding of a Cato Institute report released this week claiming to calculate...
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Separating Fact from Fiction on Nutrition Assistance
Check out this short video separating fact from fiction in the ongoing debate over nutrition assistance for low-income Americans....
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Can the Right Afford to Acknowledge Low Upward Mobility in the U.S.?
Michael Laracy of the Annie E. Casey Foundation emailed around an opinion piece by Fareed Zakaria on the boffo...
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State Predicts Increase in Sales, Income Tax Collections
As I previously blogged here and here, Pennsylvania General Fund revenue collections are projected to grow very little in...
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Health Law Saves Consumers by Requiring Insurers to Spend Premium Dollars on Medical Care
A key reform in the Affordable Care Act requires health insurers to spend 80% to 85% of premium dollars...
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Sales, Income Taxes to Rise; Corporate Taxes Not So Much
As I blogged last week, state budget forecasters are not predicting much growth in revenue collections over the 2013-14...
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