Education

Key Takeaways from Governor’s 2024 Budget Proposal

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 7, 2024

Key Points Gov. Josh Shapiro’s startling spending increases and myriad of new initiatives would explode the budget deficit and invite massive tax hikes on working families in the coming years.

Backgrounder

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Health Care

COVID-19 Could Change the Way Pennsylvania Does Business

  • Stefanie Mason
  • September 16, 2020

Small business owners like Elvira, Jessa, and Andy deserve a fighting chance to keep their business dreams alive. That’s the only way to heal Pennsylvania’s economy.

Fact Sheet

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Government Accountability

A Door to Liberation: Why Juneteenth Matters

  • Lenny McAllister
  • June 19, 2020

Juneteenth is a celebration that makes Independence Day a more fulfilled promise across America. The freedom extolled on July 4th, 1776, was robust, even if it took June 19th, 1865,…

Commentary

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Investor Profile: Chet Beiler

  • February 14, 2017

Chet Beiler runs the nation’s leading gazebo retailer and, along with his wife, Sharon, is a longtime supporter of the Commonwealth Foundation. Recently, Charles Mitchell sat down with Chet at…

Commentary

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Investor Profile: Chet Beiler

  • Charles Mitchell
  • February 14, 2017

Chet Beiler runs the nation’s leading gazebo retailer and, along with his wife, Sharon, is a longtime supporter of the Commonwealth Foundation. Recently, Charles Mitchell sat down with Chet at…

Commentary

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Of Mice, Barbie and Prevailing Wage

  • March 8, 2012

In March of 1961, the Soviet Union shot a dog, some mice and a guinea pig into space.  Meanwhile, back in the U.S., nine black students from Mississippi…

Media

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Regulation

Wine Kiosks: One of These Things is Not Like the Others

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 31, 2011

Yesterday, Auditor General Jack Wagner released an audit of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s wine kiosk program. Following that, PLCB CEO Joe Conti talked with capitol reporters. In the…

Media

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Regulation

CF Blasts Big Brother Booze Brag

  • July 5, 2011

Commonwealth Foundation denounced a Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board press release today for its failure to disclose all the fiscal facts and for boasting about a government-run monopoly on liquor…

Press Release

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