Regulation

Privatizing Workers’ Compensation

  • June 29, 2010

Leonard Gilroy of the Reason Foundation recently highlighted the trend to privatize workers’ compensation. Some of the experimentation occurring in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Arizona began before…

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Regulation

Pennsylvania Budget Facts 2010: Corporate Taxes

  • June 29, 2010

The Commonwealth has the second highest state corporate income tax (behind Iowa, which has more generous deductions and exemptions). When compounding state and federal corporate taxes, Pennsylvania's corporate income tax…

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Education

Pennsylvania Education Spending

  • June 29, 2010

Pennsylvania's education spending increased from $4 billion in 1980 to over $25 billion in 2009-a 133% increase in per-pupil spending, after adjusting for inflation. School construction and debt spending has…

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Government Accountability

PA Senate Commission IDs Spending Cuts

  • June 28, 2010

In February, the Senate established a bipartisan commission to identify cost-savings measure for the Pennsylvania state budget could save money. David Argall, the chairman of…

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State Budget

Latest PA Budget Update from Sen. Pileggi

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 28, 2010

PA Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi was the speaker at today’s Press Club in Harrisburg, offering some updates on the budget negotiations, and some comments on the fiscal cliff Pennsylvania…

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Taxes & Economy

The Environment Impact of Natural Gas Drilling

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 28, 2010

Concerns about the environment impact of natural gas drilling are well-founded, but often overstated. A common misconception is that the hydraulic fracturing process has contaminated many wells and groundwater.

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Government Accountability

CF Blog Roundup

  • June 28, 2010

Here is what bloggers are giving CF some linkage for lately: Lehigh Valley Conservative and Bill Lawrence gave us some linkage for our breakdown of the recently…

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