Pennsylvania

Essential Reading

• The Crisis of Mutual Contempt In Pennsylvania's Legislature
  Thomas Koenig, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
  Bottom Line:  Blaming Harrisburg’s dysfunction on “polarization” is misguided.  The dysfunction in Harrisburg—embodied most recently by Republican legislators’ and Democratic Governo...
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• June 2020 Revenue Update
  Independent Fiscal Office
  In June, the Commonwealth's revenue collections fell short of the monthly projections, completed by the Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) in August 2019, by $545.2 million, or -16.9 pe...
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• Coronavirus’ Impact on School District Tax Revenue
  Allegheny Institute for Public Policy
  School districts have been closed since March due to the coronavirus and were permitted to reopen on July 1 after approval of a health and safety plan. According to 2018-19 data from...
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• Pennsylvania Fire Company Capacity 2012 and 2019
  The Center for Rural Pennsylvania
  This fact sheet follows a 2019 mail survey of Pennsylvania fire chiefs and volunteer fire companies to identify recruitment and retention patterns, in addition to measuring the capac...
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