State Budget

Understanding the Pennsylvania State Budget

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 7, 2011

Pennsylvania's total state operating budget for FY 2010-11 is approximately $65.4 billion-or $5,193 for every man, woman and child in the commonwealth.  This policy brief looks at the entire state…

Fact Sheet

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Education

A Taxpayer’s Budget 2010: Responsible Spending for Pennsylvania

  • June 23, 2010

A Taxpayer's Budget 2010: Responsible Spending for Pennsylvania identifies opportunities to cut over $4 billion in wasteful state spending in Gov. Rendell's proposed FY 2010-11 budget.  The report also offers…

Report

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Public Union Democracy

Cost-Saving Ideas for Pennsylvania State Budget

  • Nathan Benefield
  • April 12, 2010

Testimony of Nathan A. Benefield, Director of Policy Research, Commonwealth Foundation to the Pennsylvania Senate Government Management and Cost Study Commission,  April 12, 2010 Good morning; I am Nathan…

Testimony

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Taxes & Economy

State Personal Income and Pennsylvania’s Economic Ranking

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 24, 2009

The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released the latest data on personal income by state. For the first time in many years, Pennsylvania grew faster than the nation as…

Media

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Taxes & Economy

State Personal Income and Pennsylvania’s Economic Ranking

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 24, 2009

The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released the latest data on personal income by state. For the first time in many years, Pennsylvania grew faster than the nation as…

Media

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Regulation

Six Years of Rendells Stimulus is Enough

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 27, 2009

Gov. Ed Rendell is, as head of the National Governor’s Association as well as the chief of a state facing a major revenue shortfall, leading the push for a federal…

Commentary

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Taxes & Economy

Economists against a “stimulus”

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 7, 2009

Even though the Obama administration claims all economists recognize the inherent brilliance of a proposed economic stimulus (which includes a bailout of the states, “infrastructure” spend, and “rebate” checks…

Media

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Health Care

State Budget Crises?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 25, 2008

Cato’s Chris Edwards blasts the Wall Street Journal (and other media outlets) for their uncritical coverage of state budget “shortfalls.” The Times “treats any needed spending restraint as a…

Media

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Taxes & Economy

PA lags behind US economy again

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 6, 2008

The latest state GDP report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that, despite a national slowdown, Pennsylvania’s economy continues to lag behind the rest of the nation. PA’s…

Media

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