PIT Increase Would Cost Thousands of PA Jobs

• June 15, 2009

HARRISBURG, PA —  A new economic analysis from the Commonwealth Foundation reveals that a proposed increase in Pennsylvania’s Personal Income Tax (PIT) would result in the loss of tens of…

Press Release

Regulation

Six Years of Rendells Stimulus is Enough

• Nathan Benefield
• January 27, 2009

Gov. Ed Rendell is, as head of the National Governor’s Association as well as the chief of a state facing a major revenue shortfall, leading the push for a federal…

Commentary

Public Union Democracy

Broad Based Coalition Supports Davis-Bacon Reform

• Nathan Benefield
• February 26, 2008

News release from the Alliance for Worker Freedom on coalition of organizations (including the Commonwealth Foundation) supporting Davis-Bacon reform: According to James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation, “In…

Media

Taxes & Economy

Minimum Wage COLAs: Overstated Benefits & Hidden Costs

• Nathan Benefield
• August 22, 2007

Support for minimum wage increases is based on the idea that a higher minimum wage will “help the poor” by increasing their pay and lifting them out of poverty.

Commentary

Union Membership Declines Again

• Nathan Benefield
• January 26, 2007

BLS Annual Report on Union Membership finds that union membership in PA and in the US declined again last year. Whatever will Bill George do?…

Media

State Budget

Whiskey and Car Keys

• Matthew Brouillette
• July 11, 2006

Author P.J. O’Rourke once wrote: “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” He must have been thinking about Gov. Rendell and…

Commentary

Regulation

Corporate Welfare No Boon for Philadelphia Job Market

• Nathan Benefield
• April 19, 2006

Despite receiving large corporate "welfare checks" to spur job growth in manufacturing and technology, the Philadelphia region still lags behind other areas of the Commonwealth in employment. The region has…

Commentary