State Budget

How Government Overspending Hurts Pennsylvania Families

• Andrew Holman, Nathan Benefield
• January 31, 2022

Key Points Excessive government spending and borrowing is causing record-setting inflation and severe supply chain shortages.Voters want fiscal restraint from their government.High taxes and spending are making Pennsylvania uncompetitive, costing…

Backgrounder

Commonwealth Foundation Promotes Jennifer Stefano to Executive V.P.

• Michael Torres
• November 1, 2021

November 1, 2021, Harrisburg, Pa. – Commonwealth Foundation, Pennsylvania’s free-market think tank, today announces that Jennifer Stefano has been promoted to the position of Executive Vice President. Her appointment took…

Press Release

Op-Ed: The CHOICE Act: Because Low-Income Children Deserve Options, Too

• Colleen Hroncich
• June 29, 2021

The CHOICE Act won’t solve every problem we see in education today. But it will open new opportunities for thousands of low-income students.

Commentary

Three Ways Pennsylvania Should Spend American Rescue Plan Funds

• April 7, 2021

How should the commonwealth use this massive surplus of federal dollars? The temptation might be to simply pay off our budget deficit. The IFO projects that over the next five…

Fact Sheet

Op-Ed: The dangerous legacy of emergencies like Covid-19

• Elizabeth Stelle
• February 2, 2021

Recent crises show that trading liberty for security risks a permanent loss of freedom.

Commentary

Regulation

Competition, Not Corporate Welfare: 3 Ways to Help All Businesses Flourish

• Tirzah Duren
• August 4, 2020

To effectively promote economic growth and job creation, policymakers need to stop investing tax dollars in failed programs and start enacting policies that benefit a wide range of job creators.

Memo

Criminal Justice Reform

Smart on Crime Reforms in 2017-18

• Elizabeth Stelle, Marc LeBlond
• December 20, 2018

“If it's failed policy, we should have the courage to leave it and let it go.” This poignant quote from former Senator Stewart Greenleaf encapsulates the essence of recent…

Media

Health Care

A $2,000 Blister and Other Medicaid Failures

• Elizabeth Stelle
• May 17, 2018

Sunburns, warts, and blisters—Medicaid recipients receive Emergency Room (ER) treatment for these common ailments, costing state taxpayers millions of dollars according to a WTAE investigation by Paul Van Osdol. With nearly…

Media

Health Care

Obamacare Repeal Could Strengthen Medicaid

• Elizabeth Stelle
• May 10, 2017

There is no shortage of dire warnings from the press, medical industry lobbyists, and other left-leaning organizations about the American Health Care Act's (AHCA) landmark Medicaid reforms. At the…

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