From Keystone Research Center (https://krc-pbpc.org/): Worker-Friendly Policies Can Lock In Shared Prosperity Harrisburg, PA—The Keystone Research Center today released its annual “State of Working Pennsylvania” check-in on the Pennsylvania economy, a report with a simple message: a tight labor market … Continued
From Keystone Research Center/Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (https://krc-pbpc.org/): Keystone Research Annual State of Working PA Highlights Critical Need for Continued Federal and State Action on the Economy HARRISBURG — Today the Keystone Research Center released its annual State of … Continued
From Keystone Research Center (http://www.keystoneresearch.org): Keystone Research Center economists Stephen Herzenberg and Maisum Murtaza today published a blog that interprets the latest job and small business data for Pennsylvania editorial boards, reporters, and other media. They finds that Pennsylvania is still 400,000+ … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): What surprised EPI Economist Kyle K. Moore when crunching the numbers for our latest report on state unemployment by race and ethnicity? The fact that the historical unemployment gap between Black and white workers … Continued
TELL CONGRESS TO PASS A COVID RELIEF PACKAGE NOW From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): Right now, Congress is considering a COVID relief package to accompany federal funding for the remainder of this fiscal year. As congressional leaders plan to include another … Continued
From Keystone Research Center (http://www.keystoneresearch.org): HARRISBURG — Today the Keystone Research Center released its annual State of Working PA report. Stephen Herzenberg, economist and executive director of Keystone Research Center, broke down the latest numbers on the Pennsylvania economy from … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): A note from EPI’s Kirstyn Flood: Without federal aid to state and local governments, millions of jobs in the public sector will be lost by the end of 2021, severely impacting Black workers, women, and veterans, … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): It appears that the Senate is failing to recognize the scope and impact of this pandemic, and not giving workers or our economy what we really need. We need Congress to pass a strong, bold, comprehensive … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): States are on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. For more than two decades, EPI has been home to EARN—a national network of 55 organizations in 43 states and the District of Columbia working … Continued
From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): The pandemic shows no signs of disappearing any time soon. But the Senate has yet to act to help struggling families, the poor and vulnerable throughout our country. Nearly half of all households … Continued