The new blog of the Keystone Research Center and Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center We are very happy to announce the launch of Third and State, a new joint blog of the Keystone Research Center and Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center. Pennsylvania, like many other states, faces historic challenges — from ensuring that the economy brings broadly shared prosperity to working families, to addressing Pennsylvania's budget challenges in a balanced way, to implementing provisions of the Affordable Care Act, to reducing poverty and strengthening Pennsylvania's schools.