Morning call: Pennsylvania’s taxing politics of early childhood education
by Steve Esack – Pennsylvania’s budget season is in full swing as the fiscal year winds down and the next one begins July 1.Pennsylvania’s budget season is in full swing as the fiscal year winds down and the next one begins July 1. That means the Capitol is swarming with professional and grassroots lobbyists looking…
Philadelphia Inquirer: PA. Voters willing to pay more taxes for more pre-k, poll finds
By Thomas Fitzgerald – Yet in a new poll to be released Thursday, 64 percent of Pennsylvania likely voters said they would support a tax increase to expand publicly funded preschool education, responding to a hypothetical hike of .01 percentage points in the personal income tax, which would cost an average taxpayer about $50. It’s…