Jobs and Unemployment

Advice for the Voting Booth: Consider Who Will Support the Agenda to Raise Pennsylvania's Pay?

Posted by Stephen Herzenberg on November 7, 2016 11:36 am

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The day before the election, Pennsylvanians who go to the polls tomorrow have one last chance to consider the choices they will make.

Since Keystone Research Center is an economic think thank focused on the middle class, our efforts to inform voters have highlighted two issues: how the middle class is doing; and the policies that would benefit the middle class going forward.

Pennsylvania Job Growth in June

Posted by Mark Price on July 22, 2016 3:46 pm

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This morning the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry reported that nonfarm payrolls grew in June by 20,000 and the unemployment rate edged up slightly to 5.6%. A companion survey of Pennsylvania households registered a decline in resident employment in June of 7,000 — the third straight month of declines in this data.

More on Counting Shale Jobs and Deciphering Who Cooks the Books

Posted by Stephen Herzenberg on February 5, 2016 6:44 pm

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As the saying goes, “It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.”

October Payrolls Up Overall but Down in Mining, Logging and Schools

Posted by Mark Price on November 20, 2015 2:14 pm

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This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate in Pennsylvania was down slightly to 5.1 percent, and nonfarm payrolls were up by 13,700 jobs last month, each from their respective September levels.

After two months of declines in nonfarm payrolls, the return to growth in October was a welcome change.

KRC/PBPC Insider News for the Week Ending Oct. 9, 2015

Posted by Shelley Aragoncillo on October 13, 2015 1:15 pm

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So Wednesday’s roll call in the Pennsylvania House on Gov. Wolf’s revenue package didn’t go quite as we’d hoped – a 73-127 vote almost entirely along partisan lines. PBPC issued a statement afterwards calling rejection of revenue for education and a responsible budget a mistake.

The State of Working Pennsylvania

Posted by Mark Price on September 22, 2015 2:52 pm

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Below is the third in a series of excerpts from The State of Working Pennsylvania 2015 report, released by Keystone Research Center on Sept. 2, which will appear on Third and State in the coming weeks:

Significant excess capacity remains in Pa. labor market

Posted by Mark Price on September 17, 2015 1:42 pm

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Below is the second in a series of excerpts from The State of Working Pennsylvania 2015 report, released by Keystone Research Center on Sept. 2, which will appear on Third and State in the coming weeks:

The State of the Pennsylvania Economy

Posted by Mark Price on September 10, 2015 4:05 pm

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Below is the first in a series of excerpts from The State of Working Pennsylvania 2015 report, released by Keystone Research Center on Sept. 2, which will appear on Third and State in the coming weeks:

KRC/PBPC Insider News for the Week Ending Aug. 28

Posted by Shelley Aragoncillo on August 31, 2015 2:23 pm

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This eighth week of the budget impasse turned theatrical as the Pennsylvania House spent hours Tuesday casting line-item veto override votes on 20 items in the Republican budget that Gov. Wolf vetoed in its entirety back on June 30. The Legislative Reference Bureau issued an opinion that under the state constitution the General Assembly must reconsider a vetoed bill in the same manner in which it was vetoed.

Ten Reasons Why Gov. Wolf Should Veto the Republican Budget

Posted by Stephen Herzenberg on June 30, 2015 8:34 pm

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Gov. Wolf should veto the Republican budget because it would:

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