Teacher Weekly Wage Penalty Reached a Record High in 2018
We wanted to share the Economic Policy Institute’s new analysis on the teacher pay gap and explain why it should encourage...
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STATEMENT: This Isn’t The Redistricting Reform We Need
HARRISBURG—Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center director Marc Stier made the following statement regarding the resurfacing of SB22, a bill...
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STATEMENT: About 300,000 Pennsylvania Workers Left Behind by New Trump Admin Proposal on Overtime for Salaried Workers
Last week, the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) unveiled a proposal to set the overtime salary threshold, beneath...
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STATEMENT: Budget Falls Short on Education, Health Care, Tax Reform
The PA budget for 2013-2014 fails to adequately address the enormity of the funding crisis facing Pennsylvania schools. Eighty...
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STATEMENT: Governor’s Budget Does Little to Undo Damage of Last Two Years
Statement on the governor’s budget, 2013: The governor’s budget fails to provide sustainable funding to reduce class sizes in...
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Prioritize Schools and Communities Over New State Tax Cuts, Local Officials Urge Harrisburg
Local officials from across Pennsylvania came to Harrisburg in June of 2013 with a message for state lawmakers: prioritize...
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Press Release: Mother’s Day Report Highlights Pennsylvania’s Working Moms
In Pennsylvania, the EITC and CTC lifted 118,000 children out of poverty annually between 2009 and 2011. These credits,...
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Bills Weaken PA Oversight of Health Insurance Rate Increases
This legislation in the House and Senate would keep more Pennsylvania consumers in the dark. With less scrutiny and...
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Natural Gas Drillers Pay Little in Pa. State and Local Taxes
Natural gas drillers claim they have paid hundreds of millions of dollars in Pennsylvania taxes, but data from the...
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STATEMENT: Sen. Scarnati’s Local Impact Fee Lets Drillers Off the Hook
Advocates for enacting a responsible natural gas drilling tax in Pennsylvania raised serious concerns about the proposed local impact...
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Department of Revenue Analysis Goes Well Beyond Taxes Paid by Drillers
The Department of Revenue’s new analysis obscures as much as it illuminates. The largest tax contributions in each category...
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Statement on 2011-12 Budget: Doing Less with More
The Pennsylvania Legislature has adopted a budget that does less with more, cutting services to children while leaving most...
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