RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

Substantial Progress, a Large Remaining Adequacy Gap, and Slowing Growth in Core Education Funding Executive Summary: Pennsylvania has made meaningful progress toward remedying its unconstitutional school-funding system, adding nearly...

Authors: Laura Beltrán Figueroa, PhD, Policy, Research, and Legislative Strategy Director; with contributions by Felicity A. Williams, Esq., Executive Director  July 28, 2026  Executive Summary  Pennsylvania’s FY 2026–27 enacted budget...

Selective Investment, Broad Maintenance, and Unresolved Federal Risk  July 28, 2026 This is an overview of the FY 2026-27 enacted budget. You can read our longer, in-depth analysis here.

July 23, 2026 The updated analysis finds that Pennsylvania’s enacted 2026–27 adequacy funding is being directed where it is needed most, with districts serving the highest shares of low-income,...

June 25, 2026 New FY 2025 payment error rate data puts Pennsylvania at risk of absorbing new federal costs at the same time as SNAP participation is rapidly falling....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6.26.26 CONTACT: Kirstin Snow, Communications Director, snow@pennpolicy.org   Drawing on newly released research on Pennsylvania’s corporate tax system and minimum wage, the Pennsylvania Policy Center argues that lasting affordability...

June 25, 2026 Executive Summary: Pennsylvania has spent more than two decades reducing corporate taxes and narrowing its corporate tax base, leaving the Commonwealth with less recurring revenue to...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 10, 2026 Contact: Kirstin Snow, Communications Director, snow@pennpolicy.org Pennsylvania Policy Center’s Executive Director, Felicity A. Williams, Esq., Joins Senators Haywood, Costa, Hughes, Tartaglione, Kim, in...

Today, Governor Josh Shapiro delivered his proposed 2026–2027 state budget to the General Assembly, and I want to start by thanking him for centering affordability and naming the real...