Pork Lovers in Academe on a Diet

Nathan Benefield
January 16, 2007

Chronicle of Higher Ed article (subscription) on how universities are coping without pork projects for the rest of the fiscal year. For anyone who shed tears over Harry Reid’s…

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Taxes & Economy

PA Businesses to See Tax Cuts?

Nathan Benefield
July 24, 2006

A report released today by The Tax Foundation looks at legislation expected to be voted on by the US House tomorrow on business taxes. This bill (HR 1956) would…

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Taxes & Economy

New Population Data

Nathan Benefield
December 23, 2005

The US Census Bureau released their annual population estimates yesterday. Pennsylvania continues to lag behind: Pennsylvania’s population grew by 0.3% last year, slower than the national growth (0.9%) and…

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Public Union Democracy

Property Taxpayer Protections: Tax Referendum & Prevailing Wage

December 14, 2005

The Pennsylvania General Assembly is in the midst of discussing what to do about school property taxes. The discussion is an old one in Harrisburg. The complexity of this issue…

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Taxes & Economy

An Overdue Diet for an Overweight Government

Matthew Brouillette
March 25, 2005

Working Pennsylvanians received wage or salary increases averaging just slightly more than 6 percent over the last two years—yet state government spending during the first half of the Rendell Administration…

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