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Climate Science Denial Returns to Harrisburg
“Who’s funding Greg and who’s funding Commonwealth?” stated State Representative Daryl Metcalfe in disbelief to members of the Commonwealth Foundation and other right-wing front groups. He made the comments walking away from a hearing that took...
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Liberty Justice Center Spams Pennsylvania Workers
It’s not news that the Liberty Justice Center is lying to union members. The organization most known for bankrolling Mark Janus’ lawsuit against AFSCME and then subsequently hiring Mr. Janus as a professional union buster is well known for...
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PA House Speaker to retired teacher: “You don’t really care about the kids”
Pennsylvania House Speaker Rep. Mike Turzai, a close ally of the anti-union Commonwealth Foundation, attended a Harrisburg event with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this morning. While there, he dismissed dedicated public educators as...
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Welcome Back, Harrisburg
This week, the Pennsylvania House and Senate will reconvene for Fall session. As such, we know the Commonwealth Foundation will be back lobbying, despite their non-profit status, on behalf of their billionaire donors. They will continue their...
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Spotlight on Free To Teach and Keith Williams
The Commonwealth Foundation likes to pretend that they can manipulate and fool educators, but the reality is that they are well aware of the organization and their efforts to bust unions. This anti-union and billionaire-funded front group has...
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Billionaire-Funded Commonwealth Foundation Uses Workers As A Facade, Literally
The Commonwealth Foundation is a front group. More accurately, it consists of a series of front groups. Their efforts to hide who they are and what they do have been exposed over and over. Since last year’s Janus V. AFSCME decision, they have been...
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One Year After Janus, Pennsylvania’s Labor Movement Is As Important As Ever
After last year’s Janus decision, Pennsylvania became a hub for anti-union campaigns from billionaire-funded front groups, including the Commonwealth Foundation, the Fairness Center, and Americans for Fair Treatment. Despite their best efforts and...
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Profiting Off The Backs of PA’s Children: Commonwealth Kids LLC Exposed
The Education Income Tax Credit (EITC) has long drained resources from public schools to benefit the rich in Pennsylvania. It has been a constant source of grief for communities, parents, and our public schools and many education advocates have...
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The Commonwealth Foundation’s Agenda Fails in Harrisburg
If it’s budget season in Harrisburg, that means the Commonwealth Foundation are pushing anti-union bills. Unfortunately for the billionaire-funded front group, their efforts went down early this year, underscoring the continued failure by State...
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Mark Janus heads to Harrisburg
It’s that time of year again: spring has sprung, the days are getting longer, and the who’s who of Pennsylvania’s right-wing politics are descending on Harrisburg for the 2019 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference. Last year, the annual gathering,...
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Rep. Metcalfe Invites Koch-Funded Climate Denier to Testify in Harrisburg
The individual called to testify by Rep. Metcalfe came from The Heartland Institute, part of the same right-wing network as The Commonwealth Foundation.
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The Washington Post asked teachers to tell us how much they spend on supplies a year, what they buy, and why they have to buy them. We got more than 1,200 responses. Here are the results, revealing that the problem is much worse than usually portrayed.
âI am a scavenger‘: The desperate things teachers do to get the classroom supplies they need
It‘s long been known that teachers spend a lot of their own money on supplies. But the problem is worse than that.
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From South Dakota to Florida, states across the U.S. will increase the minimum wage in 2020.
Meanwhile in PA, the minimum wage hasn't increased since 2009.
It's time to do what's right for hardworking families. Tell your legislators to #RaiseTheWage.
States Increasing the Minimum Wage in 2020 - Google My Maps
Pennsylvania hasn‘t raised the minimum wage in a decade, even as other states increased the wage for their workers. Pennsylvania workers deserv...
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