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New Swing State Poll: PA Voters Evenly Divided, Presidential Election a Toss Up
Harrisburg, Pa., July 26, 2024—Public support for Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is evenly divided in Pennsylvania, according to a new statewide survey of Pennsylvania voters, with Harris leading Trump 47%…
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TV Ad Exposes Shapiro as “All Talk, No Results”
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Why is Gov. Shapiro Afraid of His Own Campaign Promises?
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President and CEO Charles Mitchell on Philadelphia’s Morning Answer with Chris Stigall
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Pa. House may vote on public-sector pension bill
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Corbett has to clean up Rendell’s fiscal mess
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PSEA is giving teachers wrong message on pension
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Letters: Pa. pension-reform bill is ‘generational theft’
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How Did Lawmakers Vote on HB 2497?
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted 165-31 to pass HB 2497 today during a lame-duck session. Below you can find the full roll call…
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Trying to Redefine “Savings” in HB 2497
While many legislators we’ve spoke to agree that we need to move public employees into a Defined Contribution retirement plan—which HB 2497 doesn’t do—and away from the current Defined…
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Website Brings School Funding, Salaries to Public View
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The Politics of Pensions: Why the Taxpayers Lose
On Friday’s conference call regarding HB 2497, the Union Pension Bailout Bill (because it bails out the union from real pension reform), someone asked why there were so few…
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Media and Bloggers Highlight Coming Pension Battle
In advance of Monday’s vote on HB 2497, the Union Pension Bailout—and afraid folks would be caught unaware of this lame-duck effort—the Commonwealth Foundation issued an action alert;…
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State pension ‘reform’: Slapping taxpayers
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Legislature’s pension bill blasted as ‘generation theft’
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Pennsylvania pension ‘bailout’ proposal assailed
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School Union Continues to Deceive Its Members
Matt wrote earlier about the millions of dollars public sector unions have poured in political campaigns to get their union pension bailout.
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Union Campaign Cash for HB 2497
Who is not aware that the natural gas industry gave tons of campaign cash to elected officials in PA? Very few, as the media loved to tell that story…
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Some worry cut in film tax credits will slow local movie-making
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The voters have spoken, and they want results
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