Business Tax Cuts Slow PA Revenue Growth, Creating Future Budget Gaps
The Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) released its five-year economic and budget outlook on Thursday, and the picture is...
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PA Deregulation Bill Will Hurt Rural Broadband Access and Increase Phone Rates
There has been a wave of deregulation bills introduced in statehouses across the country in recent years, and the...
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Video: Don’t Let Property Tax Plan Derail PA Schools
The future of Pennsylvania schools—and the quality of education every child receives—is at stake in a property tax proposal...
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Video: What the Affordable Care Act Means for PA
Advocates and health care providers gathered at the State Capitol this week to explain how Pennsylvanians who are working...
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‘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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