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Since its creation, KRC has become a leading source of independent analysis of Pennsylvania’s economy and public policy. KRC is located at 412 North Third Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101-1346. Most of KRC’s original research is available on the KRC/PBPC website at [www.krc](www.krc)[pbpc.org](pbpc.org. KRC welcomes)[. KRC welcomes](pbpc.org. KRC welcomes) questions or other inquiries about its work at 717-255-7181 .  \nAbout the Authors  \nStephen Herzenberg, KRC’s executive director, holds a PhD in economics from MIT. He writes widely on how Pennsylvania and the United States can achieve broadly shared prosperity. His writings for national audiences include “Hatching Labor’s Phoenix,” in The Many Futures of Work, Temple University Press, 2021; “Goal 8: Decent Work,” in Making America a Better Place for All: Sustainable Development Recommendations for the Biden Administration, Environmental Law Institute, March 2021; Losing Ground in Early Childhood Education, Economic Policy Institute (EPI), 2005; New Rules for a New Economy:  \nEmployment and Opportunity in Postindustrial America, Cornell/ILR Press, 1998; U.S.-and Mexico Trade: Pulling Together or Pulling Apart?, Office of Technology Assessment, U. S. Congress, 1992.  \nMuhammad Maisum Murtaza is a research associate who joined KRC in 2020 after interning for the organization in summer of 2019. He has an undergraduate degree in economics from Pennsylvania State University where he also got experience teaching and organizing lesson plans for an ecology course that he approached from a sustainability perspective. He was later a guest lecturer, for that same course, tackling the basic economic trade-offs of expanding conservation and social services. During his internship with KRC, Maisum helped Stephen Herzenberg write The State of Working Pennsylvania 2019 and is now working on several projects on sustainability, immigration, and new developments in the labor force.  \nClaire Kovach is KRC’s senior research analyst. . She [holds a Ph.D. in](holds a Ph.D. in) Sociology from The Pennsylvania State University where her research centered quantitative measurement of poverty and material hardship. She interned with The Center on Budget and Policy priorities in Washington, D.C. where she worked on datadriven poverty and immigration policy topics. Her most recent work for a national audience is a Census Working Paper: Neighborhood Income and Material Hardship in the United States.  \nAcknowledgments  \nThanks to Stephanie Frank, KRC office manager, for generating the charts, figures, layout, and cover for this report; Ryan Markel for making the maps; William B. English, Yale School of Management, for comments on the section of this report on corporate profits and inflation; Kirstin Snow, communications director for KRCand its Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (PBPC), for assistance with the release of the report; and to Erica K Freeman, deputy communications director, for editing the document.  \nSupport KRC  \nThe work of KRC is supported by grants from charitable foundations, research contracts with variousorganizations, and contributions from organizations and individuals who share KRC’s vision of broadly shared prosperity in Pennsylvania. To learn how you or your organization can support KRC, please visit the KRC website [at www.krc-pbpc.org](at www.krc-pbpc.org) or call 717-255-7181 .  \nExecutive Summary  \nThe COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented economic and policy challenges to the United States and other countries. Navigating our way out of the pa","cbCaijFWzmIbow1t","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijFWzmIbow1t","pdf",1837738,42,"English","# Executive Summary\n## The COVID-19 recovery outlook\n## Workers’ power and policy choices\n## Pennsylvania economic conditions\n## Job growth and GDP trends","[{\"question\":\"What main question does the report ask each year?\",\"answer\":\"How the Pennsylvania economy is performing from the perspective of working people, including recession and wage/inflation risks.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the report’s overall assessment of Pennsylvania’s economic outlook?\",\"answer\":\"The economy and workers’ position are balanced on the edge, and upcoming policies will be decisive for the next several years.\"},{\"question\":\"Which themes does the report say will be covered in its seven sections?\",\"answer\":\"The report points to seven sections, including Pennsylvania economic conditions, and highlights that each will be supported by follow-up stand-alone blog content.\"}]","State of Working Pennsylvania 2022 - August 2022 - UNION STRONG | PDF",1792052293,106]