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Keystone Research Center
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ·The Keystone Research Center was created to broaden public discussion on strategies to achieve a more prosperous and equitable Pennsylvania economy.
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Pennsylvania Network publications
State of Working Pennsylvania 2023
- October 23, 2023
- Keystone Research Center
- Stephen Herzenberg, Claire Kovach, and Maisum Murtaza
Hiring Local on Transportation Infrastructure Projects in Pennsylvania (IIJA)
- April 5, 2023
- Keystone Research Center
- STEPHEN HERZENBERG, LONNIE GOLDEN, FRANK MANZO IV & ANDREW WILSON
Over the next few years, historic investments in Pennsylvania’s roads, bridges, and public transit systems—including $21 billion in planned state expenditures and $16 billion in federal funding—will improve Pennsylvania’s competitiveness […]
Meeting the Demand for New Workers— Investing in Career Related Learning for High School Students
- April 3, 2023
- Keystone Research Center
- Donna Cooper and Stephen Herzenberg
Investing in public education excellence is the path to thriving communities, a stable economy, and successful students. Yet Pennsylvania’s underfunded and decentralized K-12 career and technical education (CTE) and dual […]
How Can a Fair Share Tax Support Public Investment in Pennsylvania?
- April 3, 2023
- Keystone Research Center
- Marc Stier and Diana Polson
Pennsylvania has long suffered from a tax system that is both highly regressive, taking a larger share of income from low-income and moderate-income families than high-income families, and that does […]
The Economic Contributions of Pennsylvania’s Immigrants
- May 1, 2021
- Keystone Research Center
- Muhammad Maisum Murtaza
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to highlight just how interconnected our economies, communities, and lives have become. Workers and employers are still fighting to mitigate damage from the pandemic, and, thanks […]
Minimum Wage Increase to $15 Means More Income for 1.6M in PA
- February 1, 2021
- Keystone Research Center
- Claire Kovach
Governor Wolf’s budget includes a plan to raise the current $7.25 per hour minimum wage to $12 in July 2021, followed by 50-cent increases yearly until July 2027, where it […]
Minimum Wage Fact Sheets Shared Work, Shared Benefits: Why Expanding Work Sharing Would Pay Off for Employees, Employers, and Pennsylvania in the COVID Recession and Beyond
- October 14, 2020
- Keystone Research Center
- Mary Madsen and Stephen Herzenberg
Expanding Pennsylvania’s use of work-sharing—reduced work hours and pay combined with partial unemployment benefits so that workers experience a smaller income loss—could be instrumental in reducing unemployment during the current […]
Making PA’s Undocumented Immigrants Mobile: Enacting Driver’s License Expansion Policy That Works for Everyone
- September 22, 2020
- Keystone Research Center
- Maisum Murtaza
Driving is such an essential part of basic mobility that most of us take it for granted. Many of us see no risk in simply getting in our cars and […]
The State of Working Pennsylvania 2020
- September 2, 2020
- Keystone Research Center
- Stephen Herzenberg, Muhammad Maisum Murtaza, and Claire Kovach
Since the spread of COVID-19 accelerated in mid-March of this year, the sharp decline in U.S. economic growth has been faster than at any previous time in recorded economic history—even […]
State of Working Pennsylvania 2019
- August 27, 2019
- Keystone Research Center
- Stephen Herzenberg
In just the past few weeks, leading American business leaders appear to have experienced a sudden and surprising bout of conscience. On Monday, August 19, the Business Roundtable, which represents […]