School Choice Expands in Pennsylvania Budget

• Michael Torres
• June 25, 2021

June 25, 2021, Harrisburg, Pa. — Lawmakers today unveiled a deal on the next fiscal year’s state budget, which the governor is expected to sign. The budget includes an increase in the cap…

Press Release

Health Care

Where Have All the Human Service Dollars Gone?

• Elizabeth Stelle
• February 10, 2020

Nearly half of Pennsylvania's budget goes to human services or welfare. Governor Wolf wants to increase human service spending by $1.4 billion next year. But how well are these programs…

Commentary

State Budget

How to Improve State Budgeting Practices

• Andrew Abramczyk
• October 1, 2019

The following testimony was given at the Pennsylvania Fiscal and Economic Summit at York College on August 22, 2019. Thank you for the opportunity to address you this morning on…

Testimony

Education

Gov. Wolf Reverses Unlawful Moves

• Jessica Barnett
• October 11, 2017

Admist the budget stalemate, there is some welcome news out of Harrisburg. Within a single week, thousands of home care workers, educators, and taxpayers were relieved from the governor’s punitive…

Media

State Budget

Is State Spending “Cut to the Bone”?

• Nathan Benefield
• August 3, 2017

One of the justifications Gov. Wolf uses to raise taxes—for the fifth time in nine years—is that state government spending has been relatively restrained. This argument suggests that other…

Media

Public Union Democracy

New Home Healthcare Scheme from Wolf Administration

• July 24, 2017

Despite having his home health care executive order struck down by the Commonwealth Court last year, Gov. Wolf seems intent on funneling state money to his pals at the Service…

Media

Regulation

What to Know about the Senate Budget

• Nathan Benefield
• June 30, 2017

Late last night, the Senate unveiled its version of the spending side of a state budget. The Senate advanced the bill from the Appropriations Committee with a full floor vote…

Media

Health Care

One Step Towards Redesigning Human Services

• Elizabeth Stelle
• June 15, 2017

Governor Wolf’s proposal to merge four state agencies into the Department of Health and Human Services has the potential to benefit taxpayers and beneficiaries by eliminating bureaucratic redundancies and providing…

Media

Everything You Need to Know About the State Budget

• May 10, 2017

The Good Spends less than Gov. Wolf’s proposal. The $33.3 billion budget Gov. Wolf outlined was never seriously considered, given how far it was outside the realm of political possibility.

Commentary