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Pennsylvania Legislators Benefit from the Paycheck Protection Program
PA Spotlight has uncovered that State Representatives Andrew Lewis in the 105th and Barb Gleim in the 199th, and State Senator John DiSanto in the 15th financially benefited from the Paycheck Protection Program. These three central Pennsylvania...
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Top Turzai Moments
It shouldn’t be a surprise former Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai cemented his legacy as a proxy for special interests by taking a lucrative job with the natural gas industry. The former Speaker spent years in Republican leadership failing...
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Pennsylvania’s Top 10 Legislative Lows
This spring’s legislative session was filled with a bunch of lows from Pennsylvania House Republicans and billionaire-funded allies. From the former Speaker of Pennsylvania touting herd immunity in children as a reason to reopen faster, to the head...
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The Dark Money Behind Pennsylvania’s Reopen Rallies
Dark money groups connected to Betsy DeVos and former Commonwealth Foundation CEO Matt Brouillette are funding legislators who have thrown themselves at the forefront of the bigoted, far-right, astroturfed movements that sprang up during the...
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10 Ways Unions Have Fought For Workers During the Pandemic
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, workers and labor unions have stepped up in unprecedented ways. They are winning new protections for essential and frontline workers, protecting their communities, and lifting up their co-workers in tragic...
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Commonwealth Foundation Building Used as Launching Spot for Reopen PA Rally
At the Reopen PA rally in Harrisburg, the Commonwealth Foundation used their building as a safe space for featured speakers and a launching spot for the rally. The emcee of the event lied about his knowledge of the organization. Watch the video for...
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Former Commonwealth Foundation CEO Mocks Lack of PPE for Frontline Workers
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic from Pennsylvania’s extremist right-wing infrastructure is indeed a new low that has the potential to get frontline workers killed. Essential workers across Pennsylvania are risking their lives to provide...
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The Commonwealth Foundation, Coronavirus, and Cyber Charter Schools
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed many examples of workers and labor unions across Pennsylvania fighting for the working class and safety of all of us. In contrast, The Commonwealth Foundation is using the pandemic to do what they’ve always done...
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The Commonwealth Foundation’s Billionaire-Funded Attacks on Paid Sick Leave
As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across Pennsylvania and the United States, a host of new proposals regarding paid sick leave, eliminating healthcare costs, and labor protections for workers have become the topic of debate as elected officials...
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The Commonwealth Foundation Again Proves to be a Front Group, Literally and Figuratively
The Commonwealth Foundation is a front group. More accurately, it consists of a series of front groups, PACs, and an LLC that allows them to profit off of Pennsylvania public school children. To underscore how much of a front group they are, last...
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The Commonwealth Foundation Rallies Around DeVos, Trump
It was no surprise Donald Trump singled out Governor Tom Wolf and his veto of a tax handout to corporations by way of privatization schemes for Pennsylvania public schools. The bill in reference was a pet project of the Commonwealth Foundation and...
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The Commonwealth Foundation Co-Opts Criminal Justice Reform
Whenever good government movements grab a foothold inside the state capitol and Pennsylvania politics, the Commonwealth Foundation is always ready to co-opt these campaigns for positive press. Once it becomes at a crossroads with the organization’s...
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PA election officials & voting rights advocates are sounding the alarm over a state Supreme Court ruling ordering officials to toss out “naked ballots" warning that the decision could cause widespread voter disenfranchisement.
Alarm grows over 'naked ballot' ruling in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania election officials and voting rights advocates are sounding the alarm over a state Supreme Court ruling ordering officials to toss out &#...
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art Fought Them — These Workers Organized Anyway
The Philadelphia Museum of Art Fought Them — These Workers Organized Anyway
Earlier this month, workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one of the largest art museums in the world, voted overwhelmingly to unionize. We spoke...
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The anti-worker State Policy Network, a national umbrella org for a web of 162 right-wing “think tanks” & tax-exempt orgs is receiving funds from DonorsTrust, the Bradley Foundation, & PA’s own Sarah Scaife Foundation.
More Than 100 Funders of State Policy Network Revealed
Five right-wing funders provided 83 percent of the traceable cash between 2014-2019 for the group’s efforts to crush public employee unions, que...
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