Instead of celebrating the taxpayer-funded aid sent to struggling communities and businesses, true compassion—true leadership—would be to focus on putting local business owners and citizens back in charge of their own fate.
By Guy Ciarrocchi
Courtney Duchene: Fighting poverty with jobs
Camden-based Hopeworks is expanding its job training and placement mission with an eye to fighting regional poverty, hundreds of jobs at a time.
By Courtney Duchene
Gordon Tomb: The natural gas severance tax is not a good idea
If Pennsylvania government wants more revenue, it should drop continual attempts to increase taxes and regulations and instead nurture widespread prosperity.
By Gordon Tomb
Gene Barr: Congress looks to fulfill Big Labor’s wish list and jeopardize workers’ privacy
As businesses and workers continue to reel from the impacts of the pandemic, House passage of the PRO Act is just one more blow to an already struggling economy.
By Gene Barr
Beth Mumford: Independent contracting empowers women — let’s protect it.
Congress should be working to make it easier, or at least not make it harder, for someone to earn a living through independent work.
By Beth Mumford
Report: Pennsylvania set for $13 billion from American Rescue Plan
A report from the Tax Foundation concludes that Pennsylvania will receive more than $13 billion in aid from the next federal stimulus package.
By Christen Smith
Kerry Benninghoff: A year of lockdowns, a horizon of hope
As other states are lifting mitigation measures and masking orders, as more vaccine becomes available, and as winter turns into spring and then summer, finally we can look forward to a return to normal.
By Kerry Benninghoff
Gene Barr: Pro-growth policies are the answer to moving Pennsylvania’s economy forward
Instead of providing a bold vision for how the Commonwealth can recover, Wolf has fallen back on typical tax and spend proposals. But there is an alternative.
By Gene Barr
Michael Farren: The minimum wage — who actually wins and loses in Pennsylvania?
Lifting the minimum wage has been an increasingly popular effort. But who’s for and against it — and what are the consequences of the policy?
By Michael Warren
Kerry Benninghoff: Getting Pennsylvania ready for its economic recovery
Pennsylvania is ready for its economic recovery. Our state government must do better in its vaccine deployment.
By State Rep. Kerry Benninghoff