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People listen as the New Jersey Assembly considers and votes on a half-dozen gun control bills Monday, March 26, 2018, in the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J.
Business
New Jersey
Politics

Companies bristle as New Jersey issues tax breaks more slowly

New Jersey is clamping down on tax break recipients, making sure companies are creating the promised number of jobs before it sends out their yearly credits.

6 years ago

Developments on the Camden waterfront, like the American Water corporate headquarters and the 18-story Camden Tower, receive substantial local tax breaks in addition to state tax incentives. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Business
New Jersey
Taxes

Camden rising? As deficit grows, new businesses won’t pay full property taxes for 20 years

Camden’s budget deficit could get worse despite a corporate-office building boom. Many companies won’t pay full property taxes for 20 years.

6 years ago

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As charities face new challenges due to the immigration crisis at the U.S. - Mexico border, some local Catholic Charities affiliates report a drop in donations. (Gregory Bull/AP Photo)
Religion

Catholic charities tested by abuse scandals, border crisis

Several local Catholic Charities affiliates report a drop in donations linked at least in part to the scandals.

6 years ago

Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Business
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Three Mile Island Unit 2, site of nation’s worst nuclear accident, to be sold, dismantled

A Salt Lake City-based company is in talks to purchase and dismantle Three Mile Island’s long-mothballed Unit 2 reactor — the site of the nation’s worst nuclear accident.

6 years ago

St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia (Google maps)
Business
Health Care
Philadelphia

As Hahnemann empties out, owner seeks bids for St. Christopher’s

Hahnemann University Hospital is making progress with its closure plans. Its owner was in U.S. Bankruptcy Court Friday setting bid procedures to sell St. Christopher’s.

6 years ago

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, photo, job seekers wait in line at a job fair (Alan Diaz/AP Photo)
Business
Law
New Jersey

New Jersey bans employers from requiring salary history from applicants

People seeking jobs in New Jersey will no longer be required to divulge their salary history during the application process.

6 years ago

With a mobile phone, Kenyans can send and receive money via a service called M-PESA. Now Facebook is entering the digital currency realm. The social media giant has helped develop a digital currency called Libra that plans to launch in 2020. (Nichole Sobecki for NPR)
NPR
Income Inequality
International
Technology

Does Facebook need a humanitarian partner for its new digital currency?

Libra, according to its website, wants to "reinvent" money by making a financial transaction as cheap and simple as "sending a text message or sharing a photo."

6 years ago

The retailer is rebranding itself with smaller stores and a focus on events and activities. (Toys
NPR
Business

Toys R Us is coming back but with a different approach

More than a year after filing for bankruptcy, the chain is relaunching in Texas and New Jersey. Its new stores will feature spaces for toy demonstrations and events.

6 years ago

A tasting event at Birchtree Catering's space at Globe Dye Works (Facebook / Love Me Do Photography)
Business
Economic Development
Income Inequality
Broke in Philly

How can established small businesses — not startups — get access to capital?

It’s never easy to fund the hustle.

6 years ago

Governor Tom Wolf holding up the signed 2019-20 budget. The Commonwealth Foundation says it contains $61 million in earmarks. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics

Earmarks? WAMs? Conservative group says by any name, they must go.

A conservative think tank is renewing one of its annual traditions: calling out state lawmakers for stashing money in the budget for municipal projects.

6 years ago

In this photo from Friday, May 24, 2019, visitors walk through the campus of Slippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, Pa. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
Higher Education
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Tuition freeze forces Pa. State System of Higher Education to tighten how it manages money

Tuition for an in-state full-time student increased to $7,716 annually, last year, which was a 3 percent increase. The cost will remain the same in 2019-20.

6 years ago

A small fleet of goPuff delivery vehicles, parked outside their Philadelphia headquarters. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
New Jersey
Taxes

Delivery company goPuff left out key details before winning $39 million N.J. tax break

The home delivery service goPuff failed to disclose a federal labor law violation to New Jersey officials when it applied for a $39 million corporate tax break last summer.

6 years ago

Sikorsky S-92 rotor (David Monniaux [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]
Business
Pennsylvania
Transportation

After Trump request, Lockheed keeps Coatesville helicopter plant open

Wednesday night's announcement comes little more than a month after the company told the Coatesville facility's 465 employees the plant would close by the end of the year.

6 years ago

Paintings by Northeast High School students in the 'Immigrant Alphabet' art project hanging on MSB in 2017 (Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Immigration
Philadelphia
Taxes
Billy Penn

Philly immigrant earnings — and taxes paid — are up 13%, per new report

The region has one of the most stable foreign-born populations in the country.

6 years ago

(Hanna Barczyk for NPR)
NPR
Higher Education
Personal Finance

These are the people struggling the most to pay back student loans

Lots of people have student loans: more than 45 million people. They collectively owe about $1.6 trillion.

6 years ago

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