Our executive director Ken Regal and the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center’s Michael Wood make the case that Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed state budget lays a good foundation for rebuilding […]
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News Release: Just Harvest Signs On to 19 Ideas to Make PA’s Tax System More Fair
Pennsylvania has the 6th most regressive tax code in the nation. Low- and middle-income workers pay more of their income in taxes than the highest-income Pennsylvanians.
Great News: Gov. Wolf is ending Healthy PA!
Gov. Wolf has announced the end of Corbett’s disastrous Healthy PA and the launching of Medicaid Expansion for uninsured low-income Pennsylvanians. This is a huge victory for all those who […]
Local Senate Democrats say PA should focus on human services, Medicaid, and minimum wage
On the anniversary of Pres. Franklin Roosevelt’s birthday, Democratic legislators held a press conference to announce their priorities in upcoming budget negotiations. We were there as they called out Gov. […]
Pennsylvania vs. food stamps
The following op-ed appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on July 8, 2013 The Corbett administration is denying and delaying benefits For anyone who has sat in the waiting room of a welfare […]
