Education

Playing the Education Lottery

Nathan Benefield
March 31, 2014

Last month, families from across Pennsylvania waited anxiously to hear if they had finally won the lottery. But these hopeful parents weren’t looking to win the MegaMillions—they were hoping for…

Commentary

Regulation

NFIB Study Finds PA Minimum Wage Bills Kill Jobs

Elizabeth Stelle
March 28, 2014

Thanks to a recent minimum wage increase, 61 percent of New Jersey businesses are likely to raise their prices. In addition, a Congressional Budget Office analysis found increasing…

Media

PA: A Tall Order for a Shot of Freedom, With a Chaser of Bipartisan Agreement

March 26, 2014

Media Hit

Taxes & Economy

Minimum Wage, Minimum Opportunity

Elizabeth Stelle
March 21, 2014

In 2007, the Philadelphia Youth Network needed to cut 1,100 jobs for inner-city teens. Why? Because they couldn’t afford to place as many teens in jobs under the higher minimum…

Media

Regulation

Wine, Dine, and Bribe

March 18, 2014

“Today’s featured wine has notes of bureacracy, boondoggles, and waste, with a lingering aftertaste of corruption. May I interest you in this PLCB blend?” Unlike a fine wine, the PLCB…

Media

Regulation

PLCB Monopoly Breeds Corruption and Cronyism

March 17, 2014

For Immediate Release Commonwealth Foundation Contact: 717-671-1901 PLCB Officials Used Public Positions for Personal Gain State monopoly has culture of corruption and cronyism on the…

Press Release

Education

Time for Paycheck Protection in Pa

Elizabeth Stelle
March 17, 2014

The government liquor monopoly, the pension time bomb, and Philadelphia’s public school crisis—what do they have in common? Each of these public policy disasters was supported by government unions. What’s…

Commentary

Time for paycheck protection in Pa.

March 17, 2014

Media Hit

Public Union Democracy

Senator Uses Public Money for Politics — So What?

March 14, 2014

All this hyperventilating over allegations that State Senator LeAnna Washington’s summer birthday bash included some surreptitious use of taxpayer resources for campaign fundraising is really a…

Media