Governor Announces Medicaid Plan
Governor Tom Corbett announced his “Healthy PA” plan Monday that would expand health coverage in Pennsylvania under the Affordable...
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PA’s Health Insurance Coverage Rates Still Below Pre-recession Levels
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) show that Pennsylvanians have not made up for...
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A Recovery for Some But Not All
As Mark Price noted yesterday, there has been a shocking rise in income inequality since 2009.
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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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