More Americans Drawing Income from Unemployment, Social Security
By Emma Lowenberg, InternThe fact that the economy is still struggling is not news to anyone. The national unemployment rate has increased steadily since February. Now, at 9.2%, it is not too far from...
View ArticleThird and State This Week: Jobs and the Marcellus Shale, Personal Incomes and...
This week, we blogged about the myth of tax flight, Marcellus Shale drilling and the state economy, and the increasing share of Americans drawing income from public programs like Social Security and...
View ArticleMorning Must Reads: Yes Bridges Need Repair & Little Old Ladies Are Homeless...
With unemployment in the construction industry at record highs, interest rates low and a deep backlog of thousands of structurally deficient bridges in need of repair, now is a great time to spend...
View ArticleThird and State This Week: Rising Unemployment, a Health Insurance Rate Hike...
This week we blogged about momentum building for a natural gas drilling tax and rising unemployment in Pennsylvania. We also featured a guest post on the need for stronger insurance rate protections in...
View ArticleMorning Must Reads:The Pain Caucus in Europe and Pennsylvania
Paul Krugman leads off this morning with a review of the havoc created in Europe and here at home by what he calls the Pain Caucus.Paul Krugman, New York Times - Pain Without Gain:Specifically, in...
View ArticleMorning Must Reads: Pensions, Health Care and Crony Capitalism
The Philadelphia Inquirer this morning reviews polling by the Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI) on retirement confidence.Mike Armstrong, The Philadelphia Inquirer— Philly Inc: Not many are...
View ArticleMorning Must Reads: Different Priorities For Different Senators
Proposals to avert the fiscal cliff shouldn't increase poverty or inequality or slow the economic recovery. Those simple common-sense principles appear to be gaining increasing visibility and support,...
View ArticleThird and State This Week: Listen to Main Street, Tax Cuts Drive State...
This week at Third and State, we blogged about how corporate tax cuts are contributing to a gap between state expenditures and revenues, an effort to get real small business voices heard in the federal...
View ArticleWhat to Make of the Fiscal Cliff Deal?
Tell us what you think about the Fiscal Cliff deal.Take our two-question survey.The agreement reached by President Obama and Congress on January 1 was both historic and disappointing — and it leaves...
View ArticleThird and State This Week: What to Make of Fiscal Cliff Deal, PA Revenue...
It was a short week at Third and State coming off the holidays, but we still have a few must reads for you. We blogged about the Fiscal Cliff deal, the Corbett administration's decision to slow down...
View ArticleOn Tax Day, Understanding Where Our Tax Dollars Go
With the deadline upon us for filing state and federal tax returns, the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center has put together a resource web page to help you understand what your tax dollars support....
View ArticleThird and State This Week: A Call to Close Loopholes on Tax Day, Pensions and...
This week at Third and State, we marked Tax Day by blogging about where our tax dollars go and why Pennsylvania should close corporate tax loopholes. We also wrote about our analysis of the Governor's...
View ArticleThird and State This Week: A Missed Opportunity, Unpaid Internships,...
This week at Third and State, we blogged about a missed opportunity in the House to close corporate tax loopholes, the troubling trend of employers taking on unpaid interns to do work once performed by...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Medicare and Medicaid
On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed into law the Medicare and Medicaid programs that gave millions of older and low-income people access to affordable health care. Today, more than 100 million...
View ArticleVictories
This is the first in a series of blog posts assessing the 2016-17 budget and the budget negotiation process from PBPC and its allies.It’s hard to be a progressive in Pennsylvania. We think of ourselves...
View ArticleMore Americans Drawing Income from Unemployment, Social Security
By Emma Lowenberg, InternThe fact that the economy is still struggling is not news to anyone. The national unemployment rate has increased steadily since February. Now, at 9.2%, it is not too far from...
View ArticleThird and State This Week: Jobs and the Marcellus Shale, Personal Incomes and...
This week, we blogged about the myth of tax flight, Marcellus Shale drilling and the state economy, and the increasing share of Americans drawing income from public programs like Social Security and...
View ArticleMorning Must Reads: Yes Bridges Need Repair & Little Old Ladies Are Homeless...
With unemployment in the construction industry at record highs, interest rates low and a deep backlog of thousands of structurally deficient bridges in need of repair, now is a great time to spend...
View ArticleThird and State This Week: Rising Unemployment, a Health Insurance Rate Hike...
This week we blogged about momentum building for a natural gas drilling tax and rising unemployment in Pennsylvania. We also featured a guest post on the need for stronger insurance rate protections in...
View ArticleMorning Must Reads:The Pain Caucus in Europe and Pennsylvania
Paul Krugman leads off this morning with a review of the havoc created in Europe and here at home by what he calls the Pain Caucus.Paul Krugman, New York Times - Pain Without Gain:Specifically, in...
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