The Race to Rebuild: How Pennsylvania Can Bounce Back After COVID-19

• Jessica Barnett
• January 19, 2021

Pennsylvanians continue to struggle amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and government restrictions. Small business owners face permanent closure, children’s schooling is in disarray, and job seekers have few prospects. Families need…

Report

State Budget

How to Balance the State Budget without Raising Taxes in a Pandemic

• Elizabeth Stelle
• November 6, 2020

Reducing spending to reflect how the pandemic impacted state agencies and balance the budget without tax hikes or borrowing is the first step. Without additional structural spending changes laid out in…

Backgrounder

Health Care

Preserving Medicaid: How to Stop Shortchanging Patients and Bankrupting Taxpayers

• August 19, 2020

Pennsylvania is a Medicaid leader in all the wrong ways. Enrollment has skyrocketed beyond population growth, and the state ranks fourth in the share of the state budget consumed by Medicaid.

Report

Op-ed: Citizens Take on Pennsylvania’s Public-Sector Unions

• Kevin Mooney
• July 27, 2020

Pennsylvania public employees advance free speech two years after the Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME.

Commentary

Public Union Democracy

Public-Sector Unions Two Years After Janus v. AFSCME

• Jessica Barnett
• June 26, 2020

Two years after Janus freed workers from forced union fees, public sector employees are still fighting for greater protection.

Fact Sheet

Regulation

Wolf’s Wage Mandates Undermine Workers

• Elizabeth Stelle
• February 7, 2020

Governor Wolf's new overtime pay rules and his sixth minimum wage proposal is a one-two punch that could send our economy reeling.

Commentary

Economic Growth Boosts Prosperity, not Minimum Wage Hikes

• Nathan Benefield
• November 20, 2019

November 20, 2019, Harrisburg, Pa. — Today, the Pennsylvania Senate passed legislation to hike the commonwealth’s minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $9.50 per hour by 2022. Commonwealth Foundation Vice…

Press Release

Taxes & Economy

The Truth About Wages

• Elizabeth Stelle
• June 7, 2019

There is one undoubted truth in debates about wages: everyone wants them to go up. Unfortunately, lawmakers can’t force everyone’s wage to increase, unless they are willing to destroy tens…

Media

Public Union Democracy

Despite Obstacles to Resignation, Union Rolls Decline

• February 21, 2019

Imagine having to pay a middleman just to keep your job. More than 5 million government workers in America had to do just that—until last June, when the Supreme Court…

Media