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Health Care

Medicaid Reform Saves Families

• Elizabeth Stelle
• September 14, 2012

Laureny Sanchez is a widowed mother of four, including 14-year-old twin Alan, who suffers from a tumor on his pituitary gland, heart problems and other medical issues. Under regular Medicaid,…

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Letters: Just throwing money at education?

• September 14, 2012

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4th District debate sounds familiar notes on economy, Libya

• September 14, 2012

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Education

How Pennsylvania Teachers Salaries Stack Up

• Priya Brannick
• September 12, 2012

If the Chicago teachers union walk-out on school children or the WGAL story on sick-time pay has you wondering about teacher salaries in Pennsylvania, you’re in luck. Our…

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Regulation

Mailbag: What Bills Would Fireproof Economy?

• Nathan Benefield
• September 11, 2012

One of our PolicyBlog readers asks: What bills would help address the Four Alarm Fire you keep speaking about? Here are a few bills we have been tracking: Taxpayer…

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Taxes & Economy

3 Reasons Marcellus Gas Tax Misses Mark

• September 11, 2012

A new report shows that Marcellus Shale drillers will dole out $206 million to satisfy the state’s tax (or “impact fee”) on natural gas production in 2011. The…

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Welfare

Corbett Rejects Ruinous Welfare Reverse-Reform

• Elizabeth Stelle
• September 11, 2012

Gov. Tom Corbett has rejected the Obama administration’s waiver to water down welfare work requirements in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. In a letter to the…

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Education

“Mighty” Teachers’ Union Strikes Chicago

• Priya Brannick
• September 10, 2012

Some 25,000 members of the Chicago Teachers’ Union (CTU) went on strike today, leaving 400,000 students out of school and parents scrambling to find safe places for their children to…

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Cities on the brink: Public-sector labor unions must be reined in

• September 10, 2012

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Panel debates best approach to Pa.’s $40 billion pension hole

• September 10, 2012

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Education

PSBA Chooses Scores Over Kids

• Nathan Benefield
• September 5, 2012

Yesterday, Priya posted on how a Philadelphia area family faces criminal charges for trying to put their child in a better school, while demand for Pennsylvania’s new Opportunity Scholarship…

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Health Care

Reps to Guv: Reject Medicaid Expansion

• Nathan Benefield
• September 5, 2012

In July, 45 members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives sent a letter to Gov. Corbett calling for him to opt out of the Medicaid expansion and the insurance…

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Education

Is Caring for Your Kids Criminal?

• Priya Brannick
• September 4, 2012

Hamlet and Olesia Garcia are facing criminal charges in Montgomery County for enrolling their daughter in the suburban Lower Moreland Township school district when they appear to live in…

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Labor Day is for Taxpayers, Not Unions

• September 4, 2012

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Bills address lawmaker pensions

• September 4, 2012

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Harrisburg’s crisis: False path

• September 2, 2012

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Labor Day is for taxpayers

• September 1, 2012

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Harrisburg’s crisis: False path

• September 1, 2012

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Labor Day is for taxpayers, not unions

• August 31, 2012

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Regulation

PLCB Drinks Taxpayers Under Table

• August 31, 2012

Thirsty for better selection and prices, lawmakers failed to quench citizens’ desire to end Pennsylvania’s Prohibition-era liquor system before leaving for summer break. Some politicians defended the government’s liquor monopoly…

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Health Care

Medicaid Myth #3: Ryan Plan Kicks Folks Off Of Medicaid

• Elizabeth Stelle, Nathan Benefield
• August 31, 2012

This concludes our blog series on the myths of the Ryan Medicaid plan. Wednesday‘s blog showed why Ryan’s plan would preserve rather than gut Medicaid and yesterday‘s post…

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