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As controller plans to review business impact of Philly soda tax, mayor doubts impartiality

Philadelphia’s city controller plans to survey businesses to see just how they are being affected by the city’s sweetened-bev ...

5 years ago

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It’s time to move forward on a Pa. tax bill

In states as different as Kansas and Illinois, Republican legislators have recognized reality and retreated from ...

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‘Millionaire’s tax’ likely to pass, if Dems hold Legislature and win gov’s race

Political analysts believe it’s likely Democratic gubernatorial nominee Phil Murphy’s proposed tax increases will be approved ...

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Saving public education depends on transcending intractable politics

The problem with public education is not the children but the adults. It is paramount we deconstruct underpinnings behind partisan gridlock.

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Toomey’s health care tax cut costs Pennsylvania up to $4.8 billion per year

The health care bill in the U.S. Senate is very much like the one in the House, but in one respect it is far worse, thanks to Pennsylvani ...

6 years ago

 Gov. John Carney told school leaders Friday
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‘I can sell’ non-referendum tax increase, Carney tells school leaders [video]

Calling a feared backlash by voters an “inconvenient consequence,” Gov. John Carney urged a small contingent of upstate schoo ...

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Protesters of Del. education cuts want bigger income tax increase

A small but determined group of educators, parents and advocates descended Tuesday to the steps of Legislative Hall protest Gov. John Car ...

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The small-business case for the Philly beverage tax

The soda industry has worked hard to create the perception that the ...

6 years ago

 Makayla Grant gets busy on her first day of preschool at SPIN-Parkwood on Jan. 4, 2017. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
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Soda tax benefits all, even its biggest critic

The Philadelphia Beverage Tax benefits Philadelphians. To say otherwise ignores the big picture. Criticism of the tax merely focuses on i ...

6 years ago

 The budget blueprint for President Donald Trump's first budget and released by the Office of Management and Budget is photographed in Washington, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
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Attacking the NEA does not put ‘America first’

I thought about my grandmother last week, when Donald J. Trump unrolled a federal budget proposal that, to no on ...

6 years ago

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Why federal support for the arts matters

Just before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, The Hill — a news organization that covers Congress — reported the incoming admi ...

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Sugary-drink tax a small price to pay for improvements to Philadelphia parks and rec

I grew up in the ’70s when gang activity in Philly was at its peak. Getting to and from home and school was a daily obstacle course ...

6 years ago

 Indian River School District won voter approval to raise property taxes 19 percent. (photo courtesy IRSD)
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On second try, Indian River tax increase passes

Delaware’s Indian River School District voters overwhelmingly approved a 19 percent property tax increase Thursday, just three mont ...

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If Pa. lawmakers actually represented Pennsylvanians, tax policy would make more sense

When I was in graduate school in political science many years ago, I had a teacher — a moderate Republican — ...

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More low-wage workers would escape poverty if tax credit included childless

Those of us focused on the well-being of Americans with low incomes have many concerns about the incoming Trump administration, but we se ...

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