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A member of the Philadelphia Parking Authority writes a ticket for an expired meter in Center City.
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Philadelphia
Streets & Roads

Philly Parking Authority resumes ticketing thousands of cars parked in street sweeping lanes

Six weeks after Philadelphia resumed street cleaning on major corridors, the parking authority has issued nearly 1,900 cleaning-related tickets.

5 years ago

A Philadelphia parking garage at 8th and Chestnut streets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Philadelphia
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Councilmember Parker introduces bill to cut Philly parking taxes

Councilmember Cherelle Parker says the bill would help encourage drivers to come back into the city for events. Some argue that isn’t a good thing.

5 years ago

Delaware State University
Delaware
Higher Education

Delaware State cancels $730,000 in student debt

Recent Delaware State graduates will have more than $3,200 of their outstanding debt canceled by the university to offset financial hardships related to COVID-19.

5 years ago

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Delaware
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Bill to raise income taxes on wealthiest Delawareans stalls

Delawareans with an income of $1 million a year pay taxes at the same rate as someone whose salary is $60,001.

5 years ago

A shopper's full cart on line at the ShopRite
NPR
Economy
National

No, you are not imagining it. Prices for a lot of things did jump in April

Consumer prices rose 4.2% last month from a year earlier as companies struggled to source critical raw materials and as the gov't pumped trillions of dollars into the economy.

5 years ago

Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania
Politics

Jeff Yass, the richest man in Pa., is single handedly keeping school choice PACs flush

Montgomery County billionaire Jeff Yass, a professional gambler turned powerful Wall Street trader, has long been a major donor to conservative causes in Pennsylvania.

5 years ago

President Joe Biden speaks about the April jobs report in the East Room of the White House, Friday, May 7, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Economy
Employment
National

Weak jobs report could spur, slow Biden’s huge money package

The employment report failed to show that the economy was accelerating forward, so much as it appeared to be stutter-stepping along as the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.1%.

5 years ago

People, some holding signs, participate in a protest demanding Pa. pay out their unemployment benefits
Economic Development
Employment
Pennsylvania

Unemployed Pennsylvanians demand benefits amid growing backlog of claims

Protesters, including Democratic state lawmakers, called on the Wolf administration to pay unemployment benefits to hundreds of thousands of residents.

5 years ago

A sign seeking to hire laborers is posted outside a concrete products company in Evans City, Pa., Wednesday, May 5, 2021. A bill by Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Legislature to reinstate work-search requirements for people claiming unemployment benefits cleared the House Labor and Industry Committee on a party-line vote Tuesday. Labor and Industry Committee Chairman Jim Cox, R-Berks, contends that employers are having trouble finding workers, and that they often blame the additional $300 per week in federal unemployment benefits during the pandemic and the lack of a work-search requirement. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Employment
Pennsylvania
Politics

Pa. GOP wants to restore work-search rule for jobless benefits

Lawmakers suspended the work-search requirement through 2020 amid the pandemic last year, and Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, extended the waiver administratively into this year.

5 years ago

Martin Sizmur, who is in charge of construction for Philadelphia developer Bart Blatstein, shows an illustration of an 8,000-seat domed concert hall to be built next to the Showboat casino, Wednesday, April 21, 2021, in Atlantic City, N.J.
Business
New Jersey
Real Estate

Philadelphia developer has big plans for Atlantic City’s Showboat

“We're going to be the first true year-round family resort in Atlantic City."

6 years ago

In this May 6, 2020 photo, a sign stands outside the Department of Labor's headquarters in Washington.
Economic Development
Employment
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania promises quicker, easier jobless claims system

It arrives after a series of bungled efforts to replace the system began in 2006 and culminated in a 2017 lawsuit that is still being fought in court.

6 years ago

Philadelphia City Hall
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Philadelphia
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Philly pols eye wage and business tax cuts ahead of next city budget

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Councilmember Allan Domb are mulling competing tax cut proposals.

6 years ago

In this April 13, 2014 file photo, the Internal Revenue Service Headquarters (IRS) building is seen in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)
Business
Economy
Taxes

Even with pretax profits, many big companies pay zero U.S. tax

The 55 companies named in the report issued Friday cross many industries, from agriculture to high tech, and they include such big names as Nike and Duke Energy.

6 years ago

(Mark Henninger for Billy Penn)
Keystone Crossroads
Economy
Pennsylvania

Pa. utility shutoffs resume on April 1. Here’s what you can do if you owe

On April 1, utility companies in Pennsylvania can resume terminations of non-paying customers, as the annual winter shutoff moratorium lifts.

6 years ago

High-resolution satellite imagery shows the Suez Canal and the container ship Ever Given that remains stuck north of the city of Suez, Egypt. ScapeWare3d/DigitalGlobe/Getty Images
NPR
Business
Economy
International

Here’s how a long shutdown of the Suez Canal might roil the global economy

One of the world's largest container ships is solidly lodged in the Suez Canal, blocking billions of dollars' worth of commerce each day.

6 years ago

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