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DNC, Planned Parenthood launch major Pa. blitz ahead of Nov. 2 election | Friday Morning Coffee
A pair of six-figure buys are a reminder that there’s no such thing as the off-season in U.S. politics.
The ongoing fight over raising the minimum wage shows why the data is so important | Opinion
Studying the real world is difficult, and it’s constantly changing, so it is not easy to obtain all the relevant evidence
Val Arkoosh is vying for Pa.’s open U.S. Senate seat. And she’s prioritizing women in the workforce
If elected to fill the seat left vacant by Lehigh Valley Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, Val Arkoosh would not only be the first woman to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate but the first female physician from either party.
Report flags corporate donors to GOP lawmakers tied to Pa. election probe | Thursday Morning Coffee
‘Why haven’t the corporations that have supported these anti-democratic representatives in the past condemned their rhetoric?’ an activist group asks .
If we fail to act on women’s reproductive rights, Pa. will become the next Texas | Opinion
By Liz Hanbidge Pennsylvania is more like Texas than you think. Recently I began receiving more frequent calls about women’s reproductive rights. Such calls are not uncommon for me, but usually they relate to Pennsylvania, the commonwealth in which I serve as an elected representative. Lately, though, people mostly wanted to talk about Texas. I have […]
Everything we know about work is wrong. The pandemic proved it | John L. Micek
Good policy choices drive down poverty. And American workers, by now accustomed to the new flexibility of the post-pandemic economy, and the regular flow of stimulus checks, are unlikely to want to backtrack on that.
House bill aims to protect intellectually disabled from false confessions | Thursday Morning Coffee
Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Police reform measures may have lost some of the momentum they had in Harrisburg in the days after last April’s conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, but that hasn’t stopped some lawmakers from continuing to press the case for badly needed change. The newest proposal comes from state Rep. Liz Hanbidge, D-Montgomery, […]
Don’t leave out wage preemption in the fight to raise Pa.’s minimum wage | Opinion
Research shows that tying wage increases to inflation does not truly solve the larger issue at hand
A map for whom? Advocate says map makers should engage Pa.’s diverse communities | Wednesday Coffee
If you were watching or in attendance at the Legislative Reapportionment Commission’s first public comment hearing Tuesday evening, you may have heard Salewa Ogunmefun testify about the need for the commission to seek “meaningful input” from Pennsylvania’s most diverse communities in regard to the legislative redistricting process.
Amid inflation and staffing shortages, is now the time for Pa.’s minimum wage to increase?
Despite years of lobbying by low-wage workers and their advocates, Pennsylvania’s minimum wage has stalled at the federal level, $7.25 an hour, for over a decade. But with a faltering economic recovery caused by the surge of COVID-19 delta variant cases, ongoing labor shortages across Pennsylvania and troubling signs of inflation, is now finally the […]