How to speed job growth in Pennsylvania? According to the latest offering from the Keystone Research Center (KRC), the Commonwealth and local tax levying bodies
As we noted in a previous Policy Brief (Volume 11, Number 38), natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation has had a tremendous impact
In a February 8, 2011 report, the Keystone Research Center credits Pennsylvania’s recent comparatively good jobs performance on all the money spent in the last
Is the recession loosening its grip on the Pittsburgh area? According to the latest payroll employment data for August, the answer may be “yes”.
“At a time when the entire country is struggling, Allegheny County is performing better (in employment) than the state and the nation”. This quote
It must be the time of year for some to engage in the kind of intellectual vacuity that represents total abandonment of reason. The
On Tuesday the PG’s editorial page writers were adamant in arguing that Congress and the President take dramatic actions to accelerate growth job. Decrying
After some solid gains over the last year or so, Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate jumped from 7.8 percent in July to 8.2 percent in August.
Parroting President Obama’s notion that job growth nationally has weakened because of the layoffs of government workers, the Keystone Research Center says that Pennsylvania’s
Private sector employment grew in June at a respectable pace as measured by the change from June 2011. Jobs increased by 19,000 over the
