The Allegheny Institute is a non-profit research and education organization. Our mission is to defend the interests of taxpayers, citizens and businesses against an increasingly burdensome and intrusive government. To that end, we will formulate and advocate public policies that roll back the size and scope of local government as well as create a more accountable government. Our efforts will be guided by the principles of free enterprise, property rights, civil society and individual freedom that are the bedrock upon which this nation was founded.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) earlier this year released migration data for the period of 2022 to 2023. The data show that both Pennsylvania and Allegheny County lost more migrants than they gained. But where did they go and where did new migrants come from? The IRS data provides the details.
Summary: On May 13, the Allegheny County Board of Health (board) voted to open a public comment period on an amendment to Article XXIV of the Health Department’s rules and regulations which would expand its existing paid sick leave policy and establish a countywide paid parental leave policy. This Brief will analyze the proposals’ economical shortcomings.
VisitPittsburgh’s estimate of a $177 million economic impact from the city’s hosting of the NFL Draft is not independently verifiable, says a researcher at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.
“By all accounts the three-day event went well,” says Jake Haulk, president-emeritus of the Pittsburgh think tank (in Policy Brief Vol. 26, No. 31). “Recently, an estimate of the economic impact was released by a firm which has done similar studies for other cities that have hosted the NFL Draft.
Transit Revitalization Investment Districts (TRIDs) are a politically motivated gimmick to get more people out of cars and into public transit that has run into reality, concludes a researcher at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.
“The bottom line is that for all the effort to write the legislation that establishes the methodology and requirements to create [it] — and the implicit promises of a major boost in public transit use — TRID is an abject failure,” says Jake Haulk, president-emeritus of the Pittsburgh think tank (in Policy Brief Vol. 26, No. 30).
