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Post-Labor Day Thoughts: Middle Class Can’t Afford Another Lost Decade
By Mark Price, Third and State Labor Day 2012 is behind us, but the challenges confronting the middle class are not. As we do each year around this time, the Keystone Research Center has released the...
View ArticleThe Manufacturing Jobs Score by President Since 1948
By Stephen Herzenberg, Third and State After former President Bill Clinton claimed the “jobs score” was better in Democratic presidential administrations than in Republican ones, Colin Gordon of the...
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Fact Checking PA Governor Corbett’s Jobs Record…and Some Unsolicited Advice
By Stephen Herzenberg, Third and State Governor Tom Corbett’s administration has a new summary of Pennsylvania’s recent job performance. Today’s news that Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate is as high as...
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‘How ’bout No, You Crazy Dutch….’
By Mark Price, Third and State On Monday night, the Lower Allen Township commissioners in Cumberland County considered a proposal from Ahold USA, the corporate parent of Giant Food Stores, for a...
View ArticlePennsylvania Private Job Performance Through the Looking Glass
By Stephen Herzenberg, Third and State In the 1890s, scientist George Stratton reported that, after four days of wearing a lens that inverted his vision, his brain reprocessed what he saw and flipped...
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Imagine … A Minimum Wage Your Daughter Could Live On
By Stephen Herzenberg, Third and State The Australian minimum wage this year is $15.96 per hour. I know this mostly because my daughter lives in Melbourne these days (not forever, I hope). When she...
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Pennsylvania’s Unremarkable Private-Sector Job Performance
By Stephen Herzenberg, Third and State Philadelphia Daily News Columnist John Baer is right to suggest that Governor Corbett’s jobs performance since January 2011 is less than “remarkable.” Baer’s...
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‘This Is What the Middle Class Looks Like’
By Stephen Herzenberg, Third and State But what does a real middle class look like? “This is what democracy looks like.” Even though this chant originated with the Seattle protests against the World...
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More Fun With Shale Jobs Numbers in Pennsylvania
By Stephen Herzenberg, Third and State Last week, the Marcellus Shale Coalition trumpeted a new claim on the shale drilling industry’s positive impact on Pennsylvania jobs: Raymond James analysts...
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Six-State Study Finds Industry Supporters Exaggerated Jobs Impact of Shale...
By Chris Lilienthal, Third and State Drilling in the six states that span the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations has produced far fewer new jobs than the industry and its supporters claim. In fact,...
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