2002 KRC Press Releases

January 4. U.S. Unemployment Rate Rises Keystone Research Center Reports. PA Rate Higher Than All Neighbors Except New York.

January 10. Costs of Forced Overtime Too High A New EPI Report Suggests the Quality of Hospital Care Suffers as the Result of Overtime.

January 22. New Pennsylvania Teacher Tests Won't Improve Teacher Performance, Keystone Research Center Finds.

February 4. PA Workers Not Likely To Feel Effect Of Recession's End For Many Months, Keystone Research Center Reports. New Study Predicts Unemployment Will Persist.

March 6. Property Tax "Circuit Breaker" Would Reduce Middle Class Tax Burden. New Proposal for the Kesytone Research Center Would Also Ease Public School Funding Crisis.

March 19. Edison Overstates Philadelphia School Savings From Outsourcing Maintenance and Operations Work, Keystone Research Center Finds.

June 19. Pennsylvania's Business Taxes Are Not High Compared With Other States. New KRC Review Takes Issue with Conclusions of Recent Business-Sponsored Studies.

August 8. Many Pennsylvania Industrial Development Loans Create Low-Quality Jobs New Keystone Research Center Study Shows.

PA Cities In Economic Trouble, Security for Workers Still Elusive. Report Underscores Need for Smart Growth Policies and a New Initiative to Promote Opportunity in Postindustrial Pennsylvania.

September 19.Rural PA Counties Grow Fastest In 1990s. Keystone Research Center Analysis of U.S. Census Data Finds Southeastern Counties Wealthy, Southwestern Counties Poor.

October 22. Booming Trade Deficit Costs Pennsylvania 142,221 Jobs Since 1994.

November 18. Union Construction Apprenticeships Plug Skill Gap. Union Programs Graduate Six Times as Many Skilled Crafts as Non-Union, 12 Times as Many Women and Male Minorities. More Union Workers Combine Apprenticeship with Low-cost College.

December 18. New Report Finds that Pennsylvania Underperforms Economically Dispite High Development Capacity. Corporation for Enterprise Development Report Underscores Need for Pennsylvania Policymakers to Capitalize on State’s Existing Strengths.