Natural Gas Producers in PA Don’t Pay Their Fair Share
The natural gas industry and its allies continue to claim that Pennsylvania’s impact fee amounts to a tax that...
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The State of Working Pennsylvania 2017
The KRC’s 22nd edition of “The State of Working Pennsylvania” finds that low-to-middle income Pennsylvanians are not sharing in...
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Pennsylvania Higher Education at a Crossroads: To Boost Opportunity and Growth, Pennsylvania Needs to Invest in Higher Education
Pennsylvania’s public four-year colleges currently confront a funding and enrollment crisis, with three of the most distressed universities in...
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At Students’ Expense: Rising Costs Threaten Pennsylvania Public Universities’ Role in Upward Mobility
The 14 four-year universities within Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education have been a pivotal engine of upward mobility...
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Pennsylvania’s Great Working-Class Colleges
This Reports and Briefing Papers establishes the historic importance of the 14 State System schools to working families in...
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Governor’s 2018-19 Budget Overview
In 2018-19, Governor Wolf has presented another austere budget that, within the political limits of Harrisburg, makes progress on...
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Pennsylvania’s Great Working-Class Colleges
This Reports and Briefing Papers establishes the historic importance of the 14 State System schools to working families in...
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State of Working Philadelphia 2018
The Keystone Research Center’s “State of Working Philadelphia” report finds that despite healthy job growth, a majority of...
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Wolf Proposal Would Restore 40-Hour Work Week and Fair Overtime Pay for 465,000 PA Salaried Workers
In June of 2018, Governor Tom Wolf issued a notice of his intention to restore guaranteed overtime pay for...
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State of Working Pennsylvania 2018
“The State of Working Pennsylvania 2018,” the Keystone Research Center’s 23rd annual review of the Pennsylvania economy and...
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Democracy in Pennsylvania – 2018
The KRC’s report “Democracy in Pennsylvania,” examines the gap between the haves and the have-nots and the importance of...
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It’s Not Really About Work: Why Pennsylvania Should Reject Work Requirements
Despite false and dangerous stereotypes about the poor being unwilling to work, the majority of SNAP and Medicaid recipients...
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