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Electrical power generation lines are seen below storm clouds in a rural field near Newtown, Pa. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Energy
Pennsylvania
State Impact Pennsylvania

With energy prices high, Pennsylvanians urged to review utility options

The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects households that use natural gas for heat will spend 30 percent more than they spent last winter on average.

4 years ago

A customer prepares to pump gas into her car at a Shell station on Nov. 17 in San Rafael, Calif. A surge in gas prices this year is leaving the Biden administration looking for options to do something about it. One that's getting recent attention is tapping the country's emergency oil stockpile.
(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
NPR
Economy
Government
National
Politics

The U.S. emergency oil stash is in the spotlight as gas prices surge. What to know

4 years ago

Lauren Barber stands in her home in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 16. Barber has been inundated with offers from investors and companies that want to buy her house. She sometimes gets called or texted more than five times a day with offers.
(Maddie McGarvey / NPR)
NPR
Economy
Home & Family
National

Hey, I want to buy your house: Homeowners besieged by unsolicited offers

4 years ago

Motorists fill up their vehicles at a Shell station Thursday, July 22, 2021, in southeast Denver. Colorado drivers are facing some of the highest prices per gallon at the pump in more than a decade
NPR
Business
Technology
Transportation

Giving up gas-powered cars was a fringe idea. It’s now on its way to reality

In just a few years, phasing out gas-powered cars has gone from fringe idea to mainstream policy proposal.

4 years ago

illustration
Radio Times
Business
Explainers
Law

Multilevel marketing & pyramid schemes

Is there a difference? Millions of people participate in direct-sales companies, recruiting friends and families to sell products, with the ultimate promise of hope.

Air Date: November 19, 2021 10:00 am

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Sticky buns, cornbread, and chocolate chip pies in a bakery's display case. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Business
Economy
Pennsylvania

Montgomery County’s MontcoStrong grant program helped them, businesses report in survey

The $42 million program, established using CARES Act funding, helped small businesses and nonprofits during the pandemic.

4 years ago

Trucks line up to enter a Port of Oakland shipping terminal on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. I(AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Business
Economy
International
Transportation

Key reason for supply shortages: Americans keep spending

It could take well into next year or even 2023 before the U.S. and global supply chains return to some semblance of normal.

4 years ago

This Jan. 16, 2014 file photo shows the General Electric logo at a store in Cranberry Township, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Business
Economy
National

General Electric to split into 3 public companies

General Electric is splitting itself into three public companies that concentrate on aviation, health care and energy.

4 years ago

A truck hauls a piece of John Deere equipment
NPR
Employment
Protests

3 reasons labor strikes are surging right now – and why they could continue to grow

Thousands of workers across the U.S. are currently on strike, demanding better wages, better working conditions and more benefits.

4 years ago

NJ Spotlight News File Photo. (Edmund DelSol/ Pixabay)
Business
New Jersey
Real Estate
NJ Spotlight News

South Jersey warehouse demand jumps again

The spread of demand through South Jersey is the latest sign that the warehouse boom isn’t letting up anytime soon.

4 years ago

FILE - Members of the United Auto Workers strike outside of a John Deere plant, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, in Ankeny, Iowa.  The farm equipment manufacturer reached a tentative labor agreement Saturday, Oct. 30,  with the United Auto Workers union.  But a UAW strike that began Oct. 14 will continue -- and details of the proposed contract will not be released -- while workers study the terms of the agreement in advance of a vote.  (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
NPR
Economy
Employment
National

John Deere and union reach tentative agreement but strike continues for now

4 years ago

Restaurant hotel workers and Unite Here representatives chanted, “If we don’t get it, shut it down,” at a vote of union members to authorize a strike outside the Wyndham Hotel in Philadelphia on Oct. 28, 2021
Economy
Employment
Philadelphia

Labor ‘militancy’ is on the rise in Philly. Workers and experts explain #Striketober

“This is a spike in labor activity and labor militancy. Workers are asserting their power in ways that haven't been done in over a generation.”

4 years ago

Seen on the screen of a device in Sausalito, Calif., Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces their new name, Meta, during a virtual event on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021
Media
Technology

Facebook Inc. rebrands as Meta to stress ‘metaverse’ plan

Experts point out that it also appears to be an attempt to change the subject from the Facebook Papers.

4 years ago

In this photo released by the Colombian presidential press office, one of the country’s most wanted drug traffickers, Dairo Antonio Usuga, alias “Otoniel,” leader of the violent Clan del Golfo cartel, is presented to the media at a military base in Necocli, Colombia, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021.  (Colombian presidential press office via AP)
NPR
Crime
Government
International

Colombia has captured one of the world’s most wanted drug lords, Dairo Antonio Úsuga

Úsuga for years flew under the radar of authorities by eschewing the high profile of Colombia's better known narcos.

4 years ago

The exterior of a PSERS building
Law
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

How Pa.’s school pension fund keeps its communications secret from the public

The $73 billion PSERS fund won a ruling keeping secret much of its dealings with three consultants who were brought in to probe a key figure for investment profits.

4 years ago

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