Education

Educational Choice Myth and Facts 2025

• May 21, 2025

Summary Unfortunately, conversations about education choice are fraught with myths about accountability, funding, and who qualifies for choice programs. This fact sheet addresses the most common myths. Academic Accountability MYTH:School…

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Health Care

Five Facts Everyone Needs to Know About Medicaid

• Elizabeth Stelle
• May 13, 2025

Medicaid is broken, and restoring the federal program to its original intent is crucial to saving this vital health care safety net. This requires fiscal sanity in Washington, D.C. Yet,…

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State Budget

Mass Transit Bailout

• April 28, 2025

2025 Budget Proposal Seeks to Further Subsidize Inefficient Agencies Summary Mass transit agencies, including Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) in Pittsburgh, have seen…

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Education

New Polling Shows Pennsylvanians Want School Choice 

• April 25, 2025

Nationwide, people continue to demand better academic opportunities for students and programs that allow funding to follow the child.  This is especially true in Pennsylvania.  New…

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Shapiro’s Betrayal

• Common Sense Weekly
• April 9, 2025

Welcome to Common Sense Weekly! This is the Commonwealth Foundation’s weekly news roundup of policy issues debated in Harrisburg and across Pennsylvania.We have a new X handle! Follow @MyCommonwealth…

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Rural Pennsylvanians Deserve School Choice, Too

• Emily D'Vertola
• April 2, 2025

Originally published by Delaware Valley Journal. Education reform fixates on Pennsylvania’s urban centers (i.e., Philadelphia and Pittsburgh). Yet, the state’s troubled education system isn’t only…

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Is Shapiro Different?

• Common Sense Weekly
• February 26, 2025

Welcome to Common Sense Weekly! This is the Commonwealth Foundation’s weekly news roundup of policy issues debated in Harrisburg and across Pennsylvania. Josh Shapiro isn’t a “different Democrat” Gov. Josh…

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Where is Josh Shapiro on U.S. Steel?

• Nathan Benefield
• January 24, 2025

Originally published at The Philadelphia Inquirer Will Gov. Josh Shapiro finally raise a finger to save U.S. Steel? That’s been the question ever since former President Joe…

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Regulation

Josh Shapiro must stand with Pa. workers and support Nippon deal

• Andrew Lewis
• December 19, 2024

Originally published at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Despite the blistering cold conditions and national opposition, hundreds of Pittsburgh steelworkers gathered last Thursday to support a multimillion-dollar deal to save their…

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