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People protest over the ''fight for 15''
Economic Development
Pennsylvania
Politics
Spotlight PA

5 things to know about the minimum wage debate in Pa.

While Republican support for raising the minimum wage was already low, the pandemic makes it even less likely to change.

4 years ago

Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf speaks during a press conference in Lancaster on March 10, 2021. (Gov. Tom Wolf/Flickr)
Keystone Crossroads
Economy
Pennsylvania

Wolf pessimistic about his stimulus spending hopes for Pa.

Gov. Tom Wolf is already resigned to the GOP-controlled legislature blocking his plan for $7 billion in federal stimulus money.

4 years ago

(Charles Fox/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Business
Economic Development
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

A business owner’s guide to Pa.’s next wave of COVID-19 relief grants

The aid is targeted at businesses with fewer than 300 employees that have lost at least 25% of their sales as a result of the pandemic.

4 years ago

Janice Roundtree has had difficulties with Pennsylvania's Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. (Photo by Liani Roundtree-Crawley)
Keystone Crossroads
Employment
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania

Glitches in Pa. unemployment program ‘a disaster’ for vulnerable residents

Amid surging job loss due to COVID-19, a no-bid contract led to bungled unemployment payments to people who weren’t given timely information about errors.

4 years ago

Listen 4:42
(Heather Khalifa/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Business
Economic Development
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

New coronavirus grants for small Pa. businesses aim for inclusivity, but can’t track success

Applications open next month for $145 million in grants for small businesses, with a significant change by lawmakers intended to make it more accessible to people of color.

4 years ago

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Economic Development
National
Politics

Parliamentarian: COVID-19 bill must lose minimum wage hike

It will force Democrats to make politically painful choices about what to do next on the federal minimum wage, which has long caused internal party rifts.

4 years ago

Contaminated soil (Dumelow from Wikimedia Commons
Energy
Environment
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

N.J. entices developers with loans, tax credits to remake brownfield sites

Money is designed to recycle industrial locations for new uses.

4 years ago

Sheets of one-dollar bills run through the printing press at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in 2015 in Washington, D.C. Congressional forecasters projected the federal deficit this fiscal year will hit its highest since World War II. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
NPR
Business
National
Public Health

Federal budget deficit expected to hit second largest since World War II

Congressional forecasters expect the federal deficit will hit the second largest in decades, even without factoring in President Biden's proposed $1.9 trillion relief plan.

4 years ago

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 05: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the national economy and the need for his administration's proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief legislation in the State Dining Room at the White House on February 05, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden hosted lawmakers from both parties at the White House this week in an effort to push his pandemic relief plan forward. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)
NPR
Economy
National

Biden doesn’t think $15 federal minimum wage hike will survive COVID-19 relief bill

Biden has called to more than double the federal minimum wage as part of his economic relief plan.

4 years ago

(Emma Lee/WHYY)
Crime
Pennsylvania

Beware of fraudsters: How to spot utility power shutoff scams this winter

Before picking up a phone call from an unfamiliar number — here are some tips on spotting scammers pretending to be PECO.

4 years ago

In this Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018, photo, a bartender talks to a customer at the Gotham Bar and Grill in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Business
Economy
Employment

US employers add just 49K jobs as unemployment falls to 6.3%

Friday's figures reflect a faltering job market, slowed by a pandemic that is still causing consumers to avoid traveling, shopping and dining out.

4 years ago

Left: Former prosector Carlos Vega (NBC10) Right: Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Politics

John Legend, tech tycoons and aggrieved cops: Who’s funding the Philly DA race

While progressive donors and PACs came out for Krasner, police unions, former prosecutors and Sean Schellenger’s mother have supported Vega.

4 years ago

A SEPTA worker walks through the 69th Street SEPTA repair shop
PlanPhilly
Employment
Pennsylvania
Transportation

Who gets paid more than $200,000 at a part-time job? Some former SEPTA managers

The positions are just a sliver of SEPTA’s 9,400-strong workforce, but the handful of part-timers collectively cost the agency about $1 million a year.

4 years ago

The exterior of The Pennsylvania Capitol
Pennsylvania
Politics

Pennsylvania Senate OKs $912M pandemic recovery aid bill

Most of the $912 million being directed by the bill is federal aid approved by Congress in last month's coronavirus recovery package.

4 years ago

A man wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walks with a dog, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Northeast Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Economic Development
Employment
Pennsylvania

Delays and glitches with latest stimulus have slowed relief to Pa.’s unemployed

Some problems stem from a lag between when the first pandemic stimulus funds expired and the time it took to get the second relief package up and running.

4 years ago

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