Taxes & Economy

Marcellus Shale Local Impact Fee

• Elizabeth Stelle
• August 26, 2011

Good evening. I am Elizabeth Stelle, a Policy Analyst for the Commonwealth Foundation. We are Pennsylvania’s free market think that crafts and promotes free-market policies based on guiding principles like…

Testimony

Walmart Waives Wistful Wine Waste

• August 24, 2011

It appears the wistful wine wizards who wished to foist the fermented farce of their conniving kiosk caper have been brought a big blow to their Big…

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Education

Green Light More Education Tax Credits

• Matthew Brouillette
• August 24, 2011

Would you ever give a green light or a hard-earned nickel to a business model that showed it was going to hire more staff to service fewer customers by doubling…

Commentary

Public Union Democracy

When Union Bosses Make Stuff Up, We Offer Facts

• Nathan Benefield
• August 23, 2011

In a story by PA Independent, AFL-CIO head honcho Rick Bloomingdale attempts to deny the incredible job growth in right-to-work states like Texas. Bloomingdale comments: “Most likely, the…

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Taxes & Economy

EPA Regs Kill PA Jobs

• Elizabeth Stelle
• August 22, 2011

Cap and Trade may be officially dead in Congress but the EPA is busy resurrecting it in a far more disastrous policy agenda that kills thousands of Pennsylvania jobs and…

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Education

A Decade of Success: Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit

• August 17, 2011

The EITC creates partnerships between parents, businesses, and scholarship organizations. These partnerships allow funding to follow students, giving children and their families choices of schools that best fit their needs.

Fact Sheet

Education

Texas vs. Pennsylvania on Educational Performance

• Nathan Benefield
• August 17, 2011

At a hearing yesterday on right-to-work legislation, a number of testifiers remarked on the substantially greater job growth in right-to-work states, on the fact residents are moving from…

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Education

PSEA Behind Phony Grassroots Effort

• Priya Brannick
• August 17, 2011

In 2009-10, the PSEA spent more than $2.6 million on political activities and lobbying. By the next year, that figure had ballooned to $4.2 million, an increase of about 60%.

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Regulation

This Is What a Boom Looks Like

• Charles Mitchell
• August 16, 2011

About half an hour ago, I was in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. (For my fellow natives of the Philadelphia area, Canonsburg is southwest of Pittsburgh, where they say “younse” instead of “youse”…

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