Taxes & Economy

Jobs “Created or Saved” is Obama’s “Mission Accomplished”

• Nathan Benefield
• November 23, 2009

Much mockery has been made of the reported “jobs created or saved” by the stimulus package – from jobs created in Congressional districts that don’t exist to the…

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Regulation

Jobs and the Economy

• Matthew Brouillette
• April 14, 2009

Testimony of Mathew J. Brouillette, President & CEO, Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives to the Pennsylvania House Majority Policy CommitteeApril 14, 2009 Thank you Chairman Sturla for the…

Testimony

Taxes & Economy

Natural Gas Lease Falls Through – PA Loses $31 Million in Revenue (and Jobs)

• Nathan Benefield
• April 10, 2009

The AP is reporting that a natural gas firm, previously agreeing to pay $31 million for a lease of lands in the Marcellus Shale formation, has backed out of…

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Taxes & Economy

Act 44 & Transportation Funding

• September 4, 2008

In July 2007, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed and Governor Ed Rendell signed Act 44. This legislation authorized the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) to increase tolls on the Turnpike;…

Fact Sheet

Data on Jobs and Taxes

• Nathan Benefield
• October 5, 2007

Here are a couple of interesting compilations of data: Tax Foundation analysis of IRS data – Income and Taxes by income percentileSkeptical Optimist on Job Data –…

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Min. Wage, Jobs, and Unemployment

• Nathan Benefield
• July 15, 2007

In his Weekly Newsletter, Gov. Rendell takes credit for “improving the lives” of workers who received a minimum wage increase. In it the Governor note: “Pennsylvania’s…

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Where the Jobs Went

• Nathan Benefield
• May 7, 2007

The Skeptical Optimist offers a “Bar Chart of Where the Jobs Went” – i.e. changes in the number of jobs by category over the last year. That is followed…

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Minimum wage: The rising tide that lifts all wages?

• December 31, 2006

Carlisle Sentinel on PA’s higher minimum wage. Alhtough, our study is quoted, the context is not fully given. Our study does indeed claim that jobs will be lost; however,…

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Taxes & Economy

Renouce the “Faith”

• Matthew Brouillette
• April 10, 2006

NOTE: This commentary was originally published on June 15, 2004. Politicians are fond of saying, "Government doesn't create jobs, the private sector does." Yet the machinations of state and federal…

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