At its regular meeting on March 24, Allegheny County Council began the process of considering an ordinance that would “undertake a reassessment of all properties within the County once every three years, with the first such reassessment to take place in 2028.” This would be a significant improvement in assessment policy for taxpayers. The Allegheny Institute has recommended more frequent reassessments for many years.
Introduction: The governor’s 2026-27 executive budget proposal and remarks included a renewed push to raise the minimum wage in Pennsylvania to $15 per hour. Legislation recently passed by the state House of Representatives would do just that.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has proposed, and the state House has passed, a measure to raise the Keystone State’s minimum wage to $15 an hour to begin 2029. But a researcher at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy says the detriments of such an increase (if adopted by the state Senate and signed into law by the governor) will outweigh the purported benefits.
Indeed, “dead on arrival” would be the most apropos way to characterize the chances of Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposed fiscal 2026-27 Pennsylvania budget being adopted by the General Assembly. For it is far more remarkable for the economic fallacies it promulgates than sound fiscal stewardship, concludes an analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.
