Welfare

Reforms Bringing Sanity to Welfare

• Nathan Benefield
• April 16, 2013

Last year the Pa. Department of Public Welfare implemented—and Commonwealth Foundation touted—a new asset test on food stamps to ensure those with means were not benefiting from programs intended…

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Renewables waste much, produce little: PennLive letters

• April 5, 2013

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Regulation

PLCB Contradictions Continue

• March 5, 2013

Should the government have its own wine brand? Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board member Robert Marcus thinks so, telling lawmakers, “We have the legal ability to do it. We did…

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Regulation

Kane Delay on Lottery Could Cost Taxpayers (Again)

• Nathan Benefield
• February 12, 2013

The Patriot News reports that private lottery manager Camelot Global Services may not be willing to extend its bid beyond the current expiration date of Saturday. Attorney General Kathleen…

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State Budget

Corbett’s Medicaid Decision Could Save Jobs

• Nathan Benefield
• February 11, 2013

The Affordable Care Act—often dubbed Obamacare—included 20 new taxes or tax increases. As these taxes are beginning to go into effect, businesses are starting to feel the impact, and…

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Public Union Democracy

Union Politics Hinder Prosperity

• Priya Brannick
• January 16, 2013

Businessman Jerry Shenk argues in today’s Harrisburg Patriot-News that tough economic realities forced lawmakers to reexamine union privileges in their traditional strongholds of Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana—and that Pennsylvania…

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Education

Harrisburg’s Horrid Decade of Despair

• September 21, 2012

With soaring crime, a city in bankruptcy and families on the financial brink, children trapped in Harrisburg School District have to wonder how bad it can really get. …

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Education

Superintendent Shocked Students Splitting Skidding Schools

• July 31, 2012

Across Pennsylvania, newspapers are telling the celebratory story of parents and students formerly stuck in failing and violent public schools who are taking immediate advantage of new opportunity scholarships that…

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Criminal Justice Reform

Corrections Coalition, Dynamic Duo Dandy Says Patriot

• May 22, 2012

Hats off to the Patriot-News Editorial Board for calling for an end to the status quo approach to criminal justice that has failed Pennsylvanians. Today’s editorial highlights the dynamic…

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