PBPC Podcast

PBPC Director Marc Stier joins the podcast to talk about his recent report about corporate tax breaks in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania now loses $4.2 billion annually due to massive corporate tax cuts since 2002. You can read the report here: http://bit.ly/2UeCd36

Jim Doyle, President of the Business Forward Foundation, joins us to talk to us about a new report entitled “Answering America: The Business Case Against Trump’s Agenda.” You can find the new report here: http://bit.ly/2KdNL0U And learn more about the Business Forward Foundation here: https://www.businessfwd.org/

PBPC Director Marc Stier joins the podcast to walk through his recently-released comprehensive analysis of the PA budget passed by the General Assembly at the end of June. You can read the full budget analysis, co-authored by Stier and PBPC Policy Analyst Diana Polson here: http://bit.ly/2kvyVZV

Steve Catanese, President of SEIU Local 668, joins the podcast to talk about various Trump Administration proposed rule changes that would affect many social safety net programs that help Pennsylvania families get back on their feet. Steve also discusses how members of the public can voice their opinion on these proposed rules—and why doing so is so important. TO SEND PUBLIC COMMENT: - Comment on SNAP regulation concerning eligibility: https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=FNS-2018-0037-0001 - The comment periods are closed for the other two proposed rules discussed, but members of the public can email comments about Wagner-Peyser to: ETAPagemaster@dol.gov and comments about the poverty threshold to the White House's contact page: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ as Mick Mulvaney is both the head of OMB and Trump's CoS.

Kadida Kenner, Director of Campaigns for the PA Budget and Policy Center, talks about the May 23 statewide day of action on raising the minimum wage and where the minimum wage debate goes from here. See the page to write to your legislator about raising the minimum wage here: http://bit.ly/2HUUs8j See information about the June 4 budget day of action in Harrisburg here: http://bit.ly/2W2mTsp

PBPC Director Marc Stier talks about the possibility of a minimum wage increase in Pennsylvania this year for the first time in a decade and why that conversation is tied to budget negotiations. Tell your legislators it's time to raise the minimum wage here: http://bit.ly/2HUUs8j "Pizza and the Minimum Wage" by Marc Stier: http://bit.ly/2V2qCAM

PBPC Director Marc Stier joins us to talk about Governor Tom Wolf's budget proposal following his budget address last week. More info from PBPC about the budget here: http://bit.ly/2TQW9pQ Follow the We The People - PA campaign here: www.wethepeoplepa.org

As of January 1, 2019, 20 U.S. states raised their minimum wages, lifting pay for 5.3 million workers across the country. Pennsylvania did not. Mark Price, Labor Economist for the Keystone Research Center, joins us to debunk the most common myths about the minimum wage. More info at: www.keystoneresearch.org.

Marc Stier, PBPC Director and the chair of the We The People - PA campaign, joins the podcast to talk about what the We The People campaign has been doing both right before and right after the election a couple weeks ago – and he helps us look ahead to the 2019 legislative session. Visit the We The People - PA website here: http://wethepeoplepa.org/ Visit the We The People - PA Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/WeThePeoplePA/

Marc Stier, Director of the PA Budget and Policy Center, joins the podcast to talk about the We The People - Pennsylvania campaign and its proactive policy agenda. Learn more about WTP here: http://bit.ly/2Con4os *The event Marc mentions was put on by We The People - Pennsylvania Action. Watch a video of the event here: http://bit.ly/2OfuzDc

PBPC Director Marc Stier joins the podcast to talk about a tax plan for Pennsylvania released this week by the PA Chamber of Business and Industry. See the PA Chamber plan here: http://bit.ly/2McD4to See Marc's response here: http://bit.ly/2NjDDWR See more about the Fair Share Tax Plan here: http://bit.ly/2sUX9uT See more about closing the DE loophole here: http://bit.ly/2CGajpM See more about instituting a shale tax in PA here: http://bit.ly/2s1xzV9

Bob Engel, retired CEO of CoBank and chief spokesperson of the Free & Fair Markets Initiative(FFMI) joins us to talk about a specific concern of FFMI, which is a company in the news fairly often recently in both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh – Amazon. More about FFMI here: https://freeandfairmarketsinitiative.org/

Stephen Herzenberg, Executive Director of the Keystone Research Center, joins us to talk about a proposal from the Wolf Administration to increase the overtime threshold for middle-income, salaried workers in Pennsylvania. Read Stephen's policy brief about the proposal here: http://bit.ly/2nSWCtg

Adrienne Standley, Deputy Outreach and Engagement Director for PBPC, joins the podcast to give us an update on the We The People - Pennsylvania campaign. Adrienne has been meeting with community groups across the state to talk about the campaign's proactive policy agenda, and she tells us about how she's hearing many of the same concerns regardless of where she goes. More about the campaign here: www.wethepeoplepa.org. Contact Adrienne at adrienne@wethepeoplepa.org.

Kadida Kenner, Campaign Director for PBPC focused on the Why Courts Matter - PA coalition, joins the podcast to talk about Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the importance of the federal courts. Stay up to date with Why Courts Matter - PA on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WhyCourtsMatterPA/) and Twitter (@courtsmatterpa).