Criminal Justice Reform

Time for Pennsylvania to Get Right on Crime

  • January 17, 2012

Last week on NPR, former U.S. Attorney General and Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh joined Adam Gelb, director for Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project, to discuss criminal justice…

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Education

School Choice in Pa. is Cure for Disaster

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 8, 2011

An excellent commentary by Jeanne Allen in the Delaware County Times sums up the case for school choice and the empirical evidence: Pennsylvania’s neighbors have led by example…

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Education

Teacher Qualifications vs. Teacher Effectiveness

  • Priya Brannick
  • September 16, 2011

Teachers are an important factor affecting student performance, and teacher salaries make up the biggest chunk of public school spending. So ensuring that the best teachers instruct our kids should…

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Public Union Democracy

Big Labor’s Stranglehold in Pennsylvania

  • Priya Brannick
  • August 31, 2011

Here’s a depressing, if unsurprising, statistic: In a new index assessing whether states favor government union bosses or taxpayers, Pennsylvania ranks 5th worst. The Competitive Enterprise Institute ranked…

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Education

Teacher Strikes

  • August 26, 2011

Good afternoon, my name is Pearre Dean and I am Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the Commonwealth Foundation, Pennsylvania’s free-market think tank that crafts free-market policies, convinces Pennsylvanians of…

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Taxes & Economy

Pennsylvania Job Growth Continues to Drag

  • June 24, 2011

Today, President Obama will visit Carnegie Mellon University to talk about technology and manufacturing jobs. A important topic, considering Pennsylvania continues to fall behind other states when it comes…

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Regulation

Privatizing “Yellow Pages” Government

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • May 26, 2011

This report surveys the scope of Yellow Pages Government in Pennsylvania, looks at examples of state and local privatization throughout the country, and outlines best practices to equip lawmakers to…

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Health Care

Pennsylvania Welfare Spending & Medicaid

  • May 20, 2011

Gov. Tom Corbett's proposed FY 2011-12 budget would represent the first time General Fund spending on the Department of Public Welfare would exceed that for the Department of Education.

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Education

PA House Passes Expansion of Scholarship Tax Credit

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 10, 2011

The Pennsylvania House today passed, on a 190-7 vote, HB 1330, which would expand the amount of tax credits available through Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC), and increase income…

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