Pension Primer #2: Paying More For Less
As Pennsylvania policymakers, media, and citizens evaluate Governor Tom Corbett’s pension proposal unveiled February 5, 2013, the KRC will...
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Pension Primer #3: Long-term Savings in 2010 Pension Reform Law Hard to Beat
As Pennsylvania policymakers, media, and citizens evaluate Governor Tom Corbett’s pension proposal unveiled February 5, 2013, the KRC will...
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Governor Corbett’s Pension Plan a Step Backwards
The Keystone Research Center has assessed Governor Tom Corbett’s plan for school employee and state worker pensions based on...
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Unanswered Questions: In the Rush to Privatize the Pennsylvania Lottery, There Is Still a Lot We Don’t Know
The Corbett administration is expected to make a decision by the end of 2012 on a bid to operate...
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Double Trouble: Taxpayer-Subsidized Low-Wage Jobs in Pennsylvania Nursing Homes
Low wages for nursing home workers mean that many caregivers struggle to make ends meet and often qualify for...
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Pennsylvania Pension Facts: Beware of False Reforms
With budget season in full swing, some Pennsylvania lawmakers are dusting off plans to eliminate the state’s secure public...
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Tax Fairness: An Answer to Pennsylvania’s Budget Problems
In Pennsylvania, the very highest-income residents are getting richer. They also pay less of their income in taxes than...
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What About the Rest of Us? Top 1% Takes Home All the Increase in Pennsylvania Income in Current Economic Recovery
This national report Press Released by the Economic Analysis Research Network (EARN) and the Economic Policy Institute presents updated...
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Increasingly Unequal in Pennsylvania: Income Inequality, 1917 to 2011
For more than 30 years, most of the 50 states have experienced a dramatic rise in income inequality. In...
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The Shale Tipping Point
This report examines the relationship between drilling activity in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia counties and the onset of...
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State of Working Pennsylvania 2014
Our “State of Working Pennsylvania 2014” report makes clear that our economy is not performing well from the perspective...
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Corbett Pension Plan Does Not Equal Property Tax Relief: What the Pension Experts Say
In his fourth year in office, Governor Corbett has been unable to persuade legislators that his proposal to change...
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