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

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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

Public Union Democracy

Gov. Union Politics Harm Employees and Taxpayers

Matthew Brouillette
March 14, 2014

Government unions aren’t about fighting for public employees and workers any more — they’ve become political operations with agendas that harm both their members and taxpayers. Americans, and even…

Commentary

Regulation

A Risk Too Great: Bonds Alone Could Worsen Pension Crisis

Elizabeth Stelle
March 14, 2014

Is your family ready to bend their budget to pay for Pennsylvania’s pension crisis? State pension costs are set to drive up the average family’s taxes by nearly $900 annually,…

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Education

Charter School Reform

Nathan Benefield
March 14, 2014

Good morning, my name is Nathan Benefield; I am the vice president of policy analysis for the Commonwealth Foundation. I wish to thank Auditor General DePasquale for the opportunity to…

Testimony

Doing Teacher Evaluations and Seniority Right

March 12, 2014

George Parker is a veteran math teacher and former head of the teachers union in Washington, DC. As union president, he spearheaded with then-Chancellor Michelle Rhee reforms removing seniority…

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