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STUDY: Teachers in Pennsylvania Are Undercompensated

Posted by Mark Price on February 15, 2018 5:30 pm
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The Economic Policy Institute is out today with a new paper authored by Jeffrey Keefe examining compensation for public school teachers in Pennsylvania.  If you are still an avid reader of letters to the editor in your local paper, or perhaps a braver reader of the comment section of the online edition of your local paper, you will not infrequently encounter angry comme

KRC Reports in Small Bites: The Minimum Wage Report 2018: Post 6 of 6

Posted by Mark Price on January 10, 2018 9:10 am
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We write a lot and that makes it hard to find the time to catch up on our latest research. To make our work easier to digest in 2018 we are breaking reports up into smaller bite size pieces and posting them here. This post is the fifth in a series of six highlighting key findings from our latest report The Pennsylvania Minimum Wage in 2018. Netflix down? Can't read another grim news story?

KRC Reports in Small Bites: The Minimum Wage Report 2018: Post 5 of 6

Posted by Mark Price on January 9, 2018 8:46 am
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We write a lot and that makes it hard to find the time to catch up on our latest research. To make our work easier to digest in 2018 we are breaking reports up into smaller bite size pieces and posting them here. This post is the fifth in a series of six highlighting key findings from our latest report The Pennsylvania Minimum Wage in 2018. Netflix down? Can't read another grim news story?

KRC Reports in Small Bites: The Minimum Wage Report 2018: Post 4 of 6

Posted by Mark Price on January 8, 2018 8:27 am

We write a lot and that makes it hard to find the time to catch up on our latest research. To make our work easier to digest in 2018 we are breaking reports up into smaller bite size pieces and posting them here. This post is the fifth in a series of six highlighting key findings from our latest report The Pennsylvania Minimum Wage in 2018. Netflix down? Can't read another grim news story?

KRC Reports in Small Bites: The Minimum Wage Report 2018: Post 3 of 6

Posted by Mark Price on January 5, 2018 5:43 pm
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We write a lot and that makes it hard to find the time to catch up on our latest research. To make our work easier to digest in 2018 we are breaking reports up into smaller bite size pieces and posting them here. This post is the fifth in a series of six highlighting key findings from our latest report The Pennsylvania Minimum Wage in 2018. Netflix down? Can't read another grim news story?

KRC Reports in Small Bites: The Minimum Wage Report 2018: Post 2 of 6

Posted by Mark Price on January 3, 2018 4:36 pm
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We write a lot and that makes it hard to find the time to catch up on our latest research. To make our work easier to digest in 2018 we are breaking reports up into smaller bite size pieces and posting them here. This post is the second in a series of six highlighting key findings from our latest report The Pennsylvania Minimum Wage in 2018. Netflix down? Can't read another grim news story?

KRC Reports in Small Bites: The Minimum Wage Report 2018: Post 1 of 6

Posted by Mark Price on January 2, 2018 5:14 pm
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We write a lot and that makes it hard to find the time to catch up on our latest research. To make our work easier to digest in 2018, we are breaking reports up into smaller bite size pieces and posting them here. This post is the first in a series of six highlighting key findings from our latest report The Pennsylvania Minimum Wage in 2018. Netflix down? Can't read another grim news story? You can binge on the full report here.

Fight Rising Inequality by Pushing Back on Tip Theft!

Posted by Mark Price on December 15, 2017 2:58 am
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Hello from Paris everyone!

I will resist here posting pictures of me eating fancy cheeses and drinking wine.

Some bodice-ripping prose from the State of Working Pennsylvania you may have missed!

Posted by Mark Price on September 8, 2017 9:26 am
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Ok, a bodice-ripping romance novel is not how anyone would describe the State of Working Pennsylvania, but now that we have your attention hopefully you will continue reading about four key decision points facing Pennsylvania policymakers considering changing Pennsylvania’s Minimum Wage Act: subminimum wages, local preemption, indexing, and wage theft.

State of Working Pennsylvania 2017

Posted by Mark Price on September 1, 2017 4:51 pm
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On Thursday we released the 22nd edition of the State of Working Pennsylvania in which we review the current state of the economy with an eye towards changes in the standard of living for working families in the commonwealth. One of the new pieces of information we present in this year’s report, with the help of the crack staff at the Economic Policy Institute, is the median wage for full-time full-year workers in Pennsylvania since 1968.