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The IRS budget has been cut sharply over the past decade, but President Trump has suggested spending an extra $362 million on tax enforcement next year. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Taxes

On Tax Day, the IRS is short of money

The agency's budget has been cut sharply over the last decade. That means fewer audits. The Trump administration says those cuts may have gone too far.

7 years ago

In this Oct. 23, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Government Accountability
National
Taxes

As the nation files taxes, Trump still hides his

Today is tax day, and millions of Americans will have to show the government everything — their salaries and their expenses, their profits, and their losses.

7 years ago

2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris speaks to students at a local cafe, Thursday, April 11, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Politics
Taxes

Kamala Harris is latest 2020 Dem contender to release taxes

Harris reported an income of about $157,000 in 2018 from her job as a senator, as well as about $320,000 in net income as a writer.

7 years ago

Top government leaders told NPR that federal agencies are years behind where they could have been if Chinese cybertheft had been openly addressed earlier. (Bill Hinton Photography/Getty Images)
NPR
Business
International
Technology

As China hacked, U.S. businesses turned a blind eye

Technology theft and other unfair business practices originating from China are costing the American economy more than $57 billion a year, White House officials believe.

7 years ago

Patrons file into the EAT Café on Lancaster Avenue in University City. The pay-what-you-can restaurant will close on April 19 after 2 1/2 years in business. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Food & Drink
Income Inequality

Saying goodbye to EAT Café: Philly’s first pay-what-you-can restaurant to close

Drexel’s pay-what-you-can restaurant is going out of business.

7 years ago

A pile of newly minted one-dollar coins honoring former Thomas Jefferson are seen at the unveiling by the U.S. Mint in Washington, D.C., in 2007. In a turnaround, congressional analysts are no longer recommending a phaseout of paper dollars in favor a dollar coin. (Jim Young/Reuters)
NPR
Business

Government watchdog flips on dollar coin

Congressional analysts are no longer recommending a phase-out of paper dollars in favor of a dollar coin. Paper money is lasting longer because of cashless transactions.

7 years ago

Studies suggest women in Pennsylvania make somewhere around $0.79 for every dollar a man does, on average.  (AP Photo)
Gender
Pennsylvania

How to close the wage gap? Pa. lawmakers look to family leave

Studies — like a 2017 one from the National Bureau of Economic Research — have shown that disparities have a lot to do with motherhood.

7 years ago

Sports Adviser Stuart Feiner, who was portrayed by actor Al Pacino in the film
Business
Economy
Sports
Marketplace

Now that states can legalize sports betting, venture capital wants in

At least 20 states are considering new sports betting legislation, which is likely to lead to a lot more online gambling. And venture capitalists can smell opportunity.

7 years ago

Hahnemann University Hospital
Health Care
Philadelphia Business Journal

CEO outlines plan to save Hahnemann University Hospital

A decision on the future of Hahnemann University Hospital will likely be made within the next 30 to 45 days, according to the CEO of their parent company.

7 years ago

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New Jersey
Taxes

N.J. accountants: Impact of federal tax change mixed

Most New Jersey taxpayers are getting some good news and some bad news as they file for the first time under the new U.S. tax law.

7 years ago

Social advocacy group urges New Jersey to get behind Individual Development Accounts, a matched approach to savings funded by participants, nonprofits, and the state (AP Photo)
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

Closing N.J.’s ‘shameful’ wealth gap between whites, people of color

Social advocacy group urges Garden State to get behind Individual Development Accounts, a matched approach to savings funded by participants, nonprofits, and the state.

7 years ago

Hahnemann University Hospital  (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Business
Health Care
Medicine
Philadelphia Business Journal

Financially ailing Hahnemann to cut 175 jobs

The Center City medical center, under new ownership since the start of last year, struggles with monthly losses in excess of $3 million.

7 years ago

Lilly Ledbetter, center, an activist for workplace equality, speaks at an event to advocate for the Paycheck Fairness Act on the 10th anniversary of President Barack Obama signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Radio Times
Business
Gender
Race & Ethnicity

Equal Pay Day: closing the gender wage gap

On Equal Pay Day, we discuss the gender wage gap and why women earn only 82 cents to every $1 that men make.

Air Date: April 2, 2019 10:00 am

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(Emma Lee/WHYY)
Government Accountability
Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Tribune

Philadelphia reveals nearly all spending from 2017

Philadelphia’s checkbook is now publicly available. The city released a trove of data that details $4.2 billion in city payments for fiscal year 2017.

7 years ago

Rep. Thomas Mehaffie (R- Dauphin) unveils a bill aimed a preventing the early closure of two of Pennsylvania's five nuclear power plants. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Pennsylvania
Politics
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Poll: Public split on whether state should act to prop up nuclear industry

A new poll found Pennsylvania voters generally support nuclear energy, but on the question of whether the state should prop up struggling plants, that support is mixed.

7 years ago

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