Education

Is School Choice the Black Choice?

• Marc LeBlond
• June 11, 2019

  Do you know that 49 percent of the kids who applied for tax credit scholarships in Pennsylvania were denied? Lenny McAllister Parents, educators, and education reformers…

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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…

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Education

Thousands of Scholarship Applications Denied, Again

• Marc LeBlond
• June 6, 2019

Pennsylvania's tax credit scholarship programs, EITC (Education Improvement Tax Credit) and OSTC (Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit), have transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of students with a private education that…

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Government Accountability

The Shadow Budget Comes to Light

• Elizabeth Stelle, Tirzah Duren
• June 6, 2019

The shadow budget is coming into the light in an unlikely way this…

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Pa. Senate Passes Momentous Criminal Justice Reform Package

• June 5, 2019

June 5, 2019, Harrisburg, Pa.—Today, in a unanimous vote, the Pennsylvania Senate continued the state’s national leadership on criminal justice reform by passing a three-bill reform package. These critical reforms…

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Senate Committees Pass State Spending Limits & School Choice Bills

• June 5, 2019

June 5, 2019, Harrisburg, Pa.—Today, the state Senate advanced two transformative bills: SB 116, known as the Taxpayer Protection Act, limits state spending growth to a rate Pennsylvanians can…

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Government Accountability

Transparency Deferred During Union Contract Negotiations

• Jessica Barnett
• June 3, 2019

Public dollars, secrecy, and politics should never mix. Yet, it’s a disturbingly common practice in Pennsylvania as public officials negotiate costly government employee contracts with their campaign donors—behind closed…

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State Budget

Making Bad Investments Won’t Restore PA

• Tirzah Duren
• June 3, 2019

Governor Wolf’s Restore PA plan utilizes a natural gas severance tax and borrowing to fund infrastructure improvements. There’s a better way to improve our infrastructure.

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State Budget

Harrisburg’s Notoriously Big Choice

• Tirzah Duren
• June 3, 2019

“More money, more problems.” It seems that Pennsylvania lawmakers and The Notorious B.I.G. may have found some common ground. Surplus revenues have been a hot topic since the Independent Fiscal…

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