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Lawmakers introduce measures targeting unions

• May 8, 2013

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Regulation

New Life for Landmark Pension Reform

• Nathan Benefield
• May 7, 2013

Landmark pension reform legislation was unveiled today, as the Commonwealth Foundation stood with Gov. Tom Corbett, state lawmakers, business leaders, school board members and other groups.  The new bills, introduced…

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Thomas Fitzgerald: Unions can’t drown out public discontent

• May 7, 2013

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Brubaker, Ross unveil pension reform legislation with Corbett’s support

• May 7, 2013

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Op-Ed: States fixing Medicaid when feds won’t

• May 6, 2013

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Health Care

Four Reasons to Avoid Medicaid Expansion

• Elizabeth Stelle
• May 6, 2013

Medicaid expansion is bad news for all Pennsylvanians. Here are four reasons why: 1. Expansion undermines the quality of health care. Medicaid patients suffer from limited access to care. A…

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Regulation

Why We Can’t Just “Let Act 120 Work”

• May 6, 2013

In a guest post, State Rep. Glen Grell addresses the pension reform myth that Act 120 has fixed the pension crisis.  For more facts & myths, click here. The…

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Record offers reasons to end local primaries

• May 5, 2013

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McIlhinney two-step befuddles liquor privatization forces: analysis

• May 5, 2013

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One-sided view

• May 3, 2013

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Health Care

Reality Check: We’re Overspending

• Nathan Benefield
• May 2, 2013

Bad revenue collections and updated projections highlight a big problem in the state budget: We are spending more than we are collecting. The problem is much worse than a recent…

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Education

How Cyber School Saved Rachel

• Priya Brannick
• May 2, 2013

In second grade, Rachel Coleman vividly remembers classmates teasing her about her high test scores and ability to learn at a sixth-grade level. “You’ll never get a husband!” girls taunted…

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LETTER: Lost jobs, lost revenue if liquor privatization is OK’d

• May 2, 2013

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Variety of groups inject money into fight over privatizing liquor sales

• May 2, 2013

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Education

Cyber School Delivers for Alyssa

• Priya Brannick
• May 2, 2013

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Private liquor spells doom for PA, groups say

• May 1, 2013

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Health Care

Corbett’s Wise Medicaid Stance

• Elizabeth Stelle
• April 30, 2013

While advocates of expanding the welfare state are using new studies to push Gov. Tom Corbett to expand Medicaid, his position of resisting the “free money” argument is wise given…

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State FOP chief: Crime would spike without state control of liquor sales

• April 30, 2013

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Regulation

Social Impacts of Liquor Privatization

• Nathan Benefield
• April 30, 2013

Submitted Testimony of the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives to the Senate Law & Justice Committee, April 30, 2013 The Commonwealth Foundation would like to thank…

Testimony

Regulation

Consensus: Liquor Privatization No Threat to Safety

• Nathan Benefield
• April 29, 2013

A recent Philadelphia Inquirer piece tries to give both sides of the debate over liquor privatization.  But one key fact ingored was that the Community Preventive Services Task Force…

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Education

Student Pleads to Preserve Cyber Schools

• April 29, 2013

Applause to Brianna Shinn, a ninth-grade student who wrote a letter to the editor of the Bucks County Courier Times. Brianna is thriving at Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School and…

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