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A bill to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour has cleared a legislative hurdle that sets it up for a future vote by the House of Representatives.

Five rural Pennsylvania hospitals are testing a pilot program that aims to keep them financially viable and help them better target resources to patients.

Work Now, a day-labor program launched a year and a half ago aims to combat panhandling by challenging people holding “will work for food” signs to do just that.

Philadelphia is set to ban cashless businesses. But there was no huge outcry, so why did City Council make the bill a priority?

An NPR investigation has found that across the country, white Americans and those with more wealth often receive more federal dollars after a disaster than do minorities.

A Wilmington public housing partnership ran out of money when donations dried up. The city was forced to make loan payments for the agency and has now taken control.

Bryce Harper’s record-setting $330 million deal with the Philadelphia Phillies took lots of people by surprise. But a now deceased former professor appears to have called it.

The Philadelphia Foundation is celebrating its 100th birthday this year by launching a public grant program.

YouTube is disabling comments on millions of videos featuring minors, responding to accusations that pedophiles use comments to network and share links.

Property values in Ocean City have eroded by more than a half-billion dollars because of sea level rise, a study by First Street Foundation and Columbia University has found.

The Turnpike Commission is behind on payments to the state amid a lawsuit over its rising tolls.

In January, Wolf issued a new proposal to raise Pennsylvania's hourly minimum to $12 this year, making it one of the highest in the nation.

U.S. and Chinese negotiators agreed Friday to extend high-level trade talks through the weekend.

Although the tax survived a courtroom challenge filed by the industry in July 2018, the lobbying has only intensified.

Researchers, meanwhile, are trying to quantify the impact of soda taxes by looking at sales data from retail establishments, including grocery stores and convenience stores.