Posted at http://thirdandstate.org/2016/december/mid-year-budget-briefing-full-picture-even-more-grim Dec 15, 2016 04:46 pm | Marc Stier Budget Secretary Randy Albright’s mid-year budget briefing brings worrisome news that, at its current level of expenditure and revenues, the Pennsylvania budget for the 2016-17 will have a deficit … Continued
Posted at http://thirdandstate.org/2016/november/inaction-state-senate-fund-unemployment-compensation-call-centers Nov 18, 2016 04:42 pm | John Neurohr Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center Director Marc Stier made the following statement after the state Senate failed to vote for additional funding for the Department of Labor and Industry’s … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org): Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center Director Marc Stier made the following statement following the Independent Fiscal Office release of their Five Year Economic and Budget Outlook: “The herculean efforts of the Governor … Continued
From Keystone Research Center (http://www.keystoneresearch.org): Pennsylvania legislative leaders are considering trying to shoe-horn into the end of the legislative session a pension proposal that is an amalgam of old proposals rejected in the past four years. Based on actuarial studies, … Continued
Posted at http://thirdandstate.org/2016/october/revenue-shortfall-and-budget Oct 07, 2016 11:33 am | Marc Stier Almost as soon as the Pennsylvania budget was passed in July, rumors swirled about the legislature coming back—either in a lame duck session in December or next year—to fix … Continued
Posted at http://thirdandstate.org/2016/august/top-universities-sued-because401k-style-retirement-plans-provide-less-bang-retirement-bu Aug 12, 2016 08:23 am | Stephen Herzenberg Earlier this week, MIT, Yale, and New York University were sued because their 401(k)-style retirement plans have had excessive fees and provided employees with a bewildering array of often-low-quality … Continued
Posted at http://thirdandstate.org/2016/july/we-have-budget-2016-2017-what-does-it-mean-schools Jul 15, 2016 12:02 pm | Susan Spicka The 2016-2017 PA budget is now complete. Recently a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the PA House and Senate approved a revenue package and Governor Wolf signed it into law. But what does it … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-04-07/budget-policy-and-priorities/challenge-to-legislators-namethecuts/a51283-1 April 7, 2016 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window HARRISBURG, Pa. – A non-partisan policy and research group is challenging lawmakers to name the programs they’d cut to balance the budget. … Continued