Marc Stier
@marcstier.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, troublemaker and Executive Director, Pennsylvania Policy Center, PA affiliate of the Center on Budget and Policy Center.
Author: Grassroots Advocacy and Health Care Reform.
Writes at http://pennpolicy.org and http://blog.stier.net.
Author: Grassroots Advocacy and Health Care Reform.
Writes at http://pennpolicy.org and http://blog.stier.net.
Pittman's constituents need policies that would help both them and urban Pennsylvanians, not holes in environmental regulations that will give them dirtier air and water.
August 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Pittman's constituents need policies that would help both them and urban Pennsylvanians, not holes in environmental regulations that will give them dirtier air and water.
Majority Leader Joe Pittman whining about the problems of rural Pennsylvania. Yet they get worse every year because he and his party act on behalf of multinational corporations and billionaires.
August 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Majority Leader Joe Pittman whining about the problems of rural Pennsylvania. Yet they get worse every year because he and his party act on behalf of multinational corporations and billionaires.
Senate Rs pass a budget that flat-funds education, Medicaid, and everything else and does not responsibly fund public transit. This is a joke not a serious #PABudget. pennpolicy.org/research_pub...
Statement on the Senate Republicans’ Pennsylvania Budget Bill
“Six weeks after the budget deadline, Senate Republicans have voted today to flat-fund education and every other part of the state budget. This budget fails to meet the moral and constitutional req…
pennpolicy.org
August 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Senate Rs pass a budget that flat-funds education, Medicaid, and everything else and does not responsibly fund public transit. This is a joke not a serious #PABudget. pennpolicy.org/research_pub...
Reposted by Marc Stier
The new episode of the Progress Pondcast is here! We interview @marcstier.bsky.social from PA Policy Center on GOP plots and schemes. @booman23.bsky.social @susiemadrak.bsky.social @steveeboy.bsky.social @owillis.bsky.social support progressive media!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Progress Pondcast Episode 20: How the GOP Will Come For Medicaid, with Marc Stier, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Policy Center
Podcast Episode · The Progress Pondcast · 12/23/2024 · 59m
podcasts.apple.com
December 23, 2024 at 11:44 PM
The new episode of the Progress Pondcast is here! We interview @marcstier.bsky.social from PA Policy Center on GOP plots and schemes. @booman23.bsky.social @susiemadrak.bsky.social @steveeboy.bsky.social @owillis.bsky.social support progressive media!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Sorry. Empathy is out of network.
December 5, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Sorry. Empathy is out of network.
I am proud to be selected as one of @cityandstatepa’s 2024 Impact Award honorees! Read about all of the honorees here: bit.ly/4fzGWmR
December 2, 2024 at 1:16 AM
I am proud to be selected as one of @cityandstatepa’s 2024 Impact Award honorees! Read about all of the honorees here: bit.ly/4fzGWmR
Reposted by Marc Stier
Trump earned LESS than half of the votes in 2024.
No landslide.
No mandate.
A lucky win.
No landslide.
No mandate.
A lucky win.
This is the election result that Piers said was the Democrats getting "pounded into total, shameful, humiliating oblivion."
November 28, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Trump earned LESS than half of the votes in 2024.
No landslide.
No mandate.
A lucky win.
No landslide.
No mandate.
A lucky win.
Reposted by Marc Stier
I am thankful for a social media site that’s not run by disinformation-pushing maniacal billionaire, not controlled by an algorithm design to censor news and much-needed debate, and not overrun by mean-spirited people who encourage and celebrate ignorance. Thankful, indeed.
November 28, 2024 at 5:15 PM
I am thankful for a social media site that’s not run by disinformation-pushing maniacal billionaire, not controlled by an algorithm design to censor news and much-needed debate, and not overrun by mean-spirited people who encourage and celebrate ignorance. Thankful, indeed.
When people tell me that Democratic "extremism" costs us votes, my response is, what you think is extremism, I think is fairness.
When businesses talk about ending government “overreach” they’re usually talking about screwing their customers over
Delta’s CEO says Trump has promised to roll back a rule requiring automatic refunds on canceled flights and another requiring airlines to disclose the full cost of a ticket up front
November 21, 2024 at 10:23 PM
When people tell me that Democratic "extremism" costs us votes, my response is, what you think is extremism, I think is fairness.
Reposted by Marc Stier
A Trump-appointed judge just struck down a Biden rule expanding overtime pay to 4 million working people.
It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/
(link)
newrepublic.com/article/1886...
It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/
(link)
newrepublic.com/article/1886...
A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned
Remember the right-wing frenzy over “Rich Men North of Richmond”? Well, this ruling exposes Trump-MAGA hypocrisy on the working class—and reveals a big media failure.
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:19 PM
A Trump-appointed judge just struck down a Biden rule expanding overtime pay to 4 million working people.
It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/
(link)
newrepublic.com/article/1886...
It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/
(link)
newrepublic.com/article/1886...
Reposted by Marc Stier
This Oberlin College sophomore speaks for the entire Democratic Party, meanwhile the Heritage Foundation somehow doesn't speak for the Republican Party despite issuing a policy document they're all following and employing all those guys on their own campaigns
November 21, 2024 at 2:25 PM
This Oberlin College sophomore speaks for the entire Democratic Party, meanwhile the Heritage Foundation somehow doesn't speak for the Republican Party despite issuing a policy document they're all following and employing all those guys on their own campaigns
Post you from a different era.
November 21, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Post you from a different era.
I know that Gaetz, Gabbard, Kennedy, Hegesth are scary. But the appointment of Chris Wright who is pro-fossil fuels and a climate change skeptic may be, for the future of humanity and the earth, the most dangerous.
November 20, 2024 at 11:19 PM
I know that Gaetz, Gabbard, Kennedy, Hegesth are scary. But the appointment of Chris Wright who is pro-fossil fuels and a climate change skeptic may be, for the future of humanity and the earth, the most dangerous.
If Trump sacrifices a third of Ukraine to "settle" the war, what do you think is the likelihood, that Russia then turns to the Baltic states and Finland and "finds" Russians in this territories who are being treated "unfairly" and who needs Russian "protection" (whether they want it or not?
November 20, 2024 at 5:20 AM
If Trump sacrifices a third of Ukraine to "settle" the war, what do you think is the likelihood, that Russia then turns to the Baltic states and Finland and "finds" Russians in this territories who are being treated "unfairly" and who needs Russian "protection" (whether they want it or not?
Reposted by Marc Stier
Cost of child care for one child can be more than rent in some US counties blog.dol.gov/2024/11/19/n...
NEW DATA: Childcare costs remain an almost prohibitive expense
We updated our National Database of Childcare Prices with data from 2019-2022 and found that U.S. families spend between 8.9% and 16.0% of their median income on full-day care for just one child.
blog.dol.gov
November 19, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Cost of child care for one child can be more than rent in some US counties blog.dol.gov/2024/11/19/n...
Reposted by Marc Stier
Reposted by Marc Stier
Let’s hope they say it publicly & refuse to confirm him.
New from NBC News: More than half of Senate Republicans, including some in senior leadership positions, are privately saying they don't see a path for Matt Gaetz to be confirmed as Attorney General and would not support him to lead the Department of Justice. @MSNBC
November 16, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Let’s hope they say it publicly & refuse to confirm him.
Evidence against the Sanders-Frank thesis that a left economic message is the key to winning working class white voters. Sanders out performed Harris in Lilly-white Vermont where he is a well known and admired by ONLY .2 points.
November 15, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Evidence against the Sanders-Frank thesis that a left economic message is the key to winning working class white voters. Sanders out performed Harris in Lilly-white Vermont where he is a well known and admired by ONLY .2 points.
Reposted by Marc Stier
Q: What happens when you overpay for a social media platform, drive away most of your advertisers, alienate half its users, making it worth less than a third of what you paid for it within a year?
A: You get put in charge of government efficiency.
A: You get put in charge of government efficiency.
November 13, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Q: What happens when you overpay for a social media platform, drive away most of your advertisers, alienate half its users, making it worth less than a third of what you paid for it within a year?
A: You get put in charge of government efficiency.
A: You get put in charge of government efficiency.
Am I the only one only one who thinks that Matt Gaetz is a stalking horse for Todd Blanche? Gaetz needed an excuse to resign before the damning ethics report comes out. He and Trump must know that he has little chance to be confirmed. He loses and becomes a MAGA martyr. And Blanche slides in as AG.
November 15, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Am I the only one only one who thinks that Matt Gaetz is a stalking horse for Todd Blanche? Gaetz needed an excuse to resign before the damning ethics report comes out. He and Trump must know that he has little chance to be confirmed. He loses and becomes a MAGA martyr. And Blanche slides in as AG.
Reposted by Marc Stier
