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Pulling Apart: Income Inequality Has Grown in PA

Income inequality has grown in all parts of the country since the late 1970s, and Pennsylvania has not been immune to the trend, as a new national study out today shows.A joint effort of the Center on...

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Morning Must Reads: One Bidder? What Could Go Wrong?

The Keystone Research Center does not oppose the use of private contractors to provide services to federal, state and local governments as a matter of philosophy.On pragmatic grounds, we DO support...

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Morning Must Reads: Corporate Tax Subsidies Run Amok and Fiscal Cliff...

I'm back, and that is completely unrelated to the fact that the blog in my absence featured people with bad wigs.On Sunday, The New York Times launched the series The United States of Subsidies, which...

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Morning Must Reads: Different Priorities For Different Senators

Proposals to avert the fiscal cliff shouldn't increase poverty or inequality or slow the economic recovery. Those simple common-sense principles appear to be gaining increasing visibility and support,...

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Third and State This Week: Listen to Main Street, Tax Cuts Drive State...

This week at Third and State, we blogged about how corporate tax cuts are contributing to a gap between state expenditures and revenues, an effort to get real small business voices heard in the federal...

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More Americans Scraping by on $2 a Day

A study by the University of Michigan's National Poverty Center reports that more people are barely making ends meet in an era of too few jobs and a tattered safety net. According to the researchers,...

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Third and State This Week: Americans Living on $2 a Day, Mayors Talk Federal...

This week at Third and State, we blogged about the increasing number of children and families living in extreme poverty, the latest on the state revenue picture, Pennsylvania mayors on a federal...

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A Minimum Wage Increase? It's Happened in Nearly 20 States.

Pennsylvania could learn a thing or two about how to breathe new life into its economy from 10 states preparing to give their lowest-wage workers a raise in the new year. The minimum wage will increase...

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Third and State This Week: Few in PA Get Top Tax Cuts, Single Bid for PA...

Note: Third and State is taking a well-deserved break from December 23, 2012 through the end of the year. We will be back in action January 2, 2013. See you then.This week at Third and State, we...

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The Reports of Unions' Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

There's a good deal of crowing in conservative circles this week about the new 2012 numbers on union membership. Union membership nationally fell by about 400,000, to 14.4 million. Union membership in...

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With the President Promising to Reduce Inequality, the Devil Will Be in the...

We were hoping to hear President Obama in his State of the Union address underline his commitment to taking on our greatest short- and long-term challenges: persistent high unemployment and rapidly...

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Third and State This Week: Minimum Wage, No Go on Lottery Privatization,...

This week at Third and State, we blogged about structuring the minimum wage to ensure low-wage workers are sharing in the growing economic pie, why lottery privatization was bad policy (as well as...

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Wealth Inequality Will Keep Growing Unless Workers Demand Better

I have an op-ed on The Guardian's web site today examining the problem that we all face in today's economy: income inequality. Give it a read.With US unemployment near 8%, millions of Americans simply...

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Third and State This Week: Talking State Budget, February Jobs, Pension...

This week at Third and State, we shared a podcast on the Governor's state budget proposal and the latest "pension primer" from the Keystone Research Center. We also blogged about the February jobs...

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Nation's Top Poor Students Are Not in Nation's Top Schools

There are significant disparities between high-achieving students from low-income families and high-achieving students from high-income families, according to a report from the National Bureau of...

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Why Some Poor Students Aren't Graduating College

Despite being heralded as a great equalizer, education can widen the socioeconomic gap between affluent and poor college students. Previously, I blogged about the trend of top-achieving low-income high...

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Third and State This Week: Corporate Tax Cuts Without Closing Loopholes,...

This week at Third and State, we blogged about how a corporate tax cut bill in the state House will come at the expense of schools and health care in Pennsylvania, the challenges facing low-income...

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Toshi Seeger and Respect for the Working Man and Woman

Toshi Seeger's obituary last week in The New York Times brought a smile to my face.Toshi provided her husband, the folk singer Pete Seeger, with the organizational skills without which he would have...

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Third and State This Week: Fewer College Grads Starting Businesses and State...

This week at Third and State, we blogged about student loan debt deterring college grads from starting their own businesses, income inequality and efforts to turn back prevailing wage laws for...

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Diversion Politics and Factual Errors with 'Americans for a Tiny Sliver of...

Jennifer Stefano, the Pennsylvania director of Americans for Prosperity, published an op-ed in the Patriot-News Friday — the latest salvo in an organized right-wing assault on nutrition assistance and...

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