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The U.S. Treasury Department has asked nearly 50,000 employees to work without pay as the historic government shutdown continues.

Bogle did not invent the index fund, but he expanded access to no-frills, low-cost investing in 1976 when Vanguard introduced the first index fund for individual investors.

As of early Saturday, the campaign had raised $20,328,658, and more than 340,000 people had donated to the GoFundMe page within 26 days.

At a time when more women than men are graduating from college and earning doctorates, just a third of Ph.D.s in economics go to women.

As of February 2018, the EDA had approved nearly $11 billion in tax breaks across five different programs statewide.

SEPTA is bracing for a possible $63 million shortfall in 2019, pending the outcome of a contentious lawsuit filed in federal court by two motorists’ groups.

The federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25 an hour since 2009, but in the years since, 29 states and the District of Columbia have established higher minimum wages.

New changes to tax law will make deducting charitable giving from next year's taxes more difficult for taxpayers.

Most of the mental health care for Pennsylvanians not covered by Medicaid, or insurance is provided through counties and bankrolled by the state. But funding hasn’t increased.

Instead of trading stocks with his clients' money, Bernie Madoff had been operating an enormous Ponzi scheme, paying off old investors with money he got from new ones.

Now in its 10th year, America's economic expansion still looks sturdy. Yet the partial shutdown of the government that began Saturday has added another threat.

Pennsylvania's treasurer, governor, and a group of lawmakers unveiled a new report Thursday that recommend a slew of changes for the state's two largest public pension funds.

Pennsylvanians are lagging behind the rest of the country when it comes to income growth, according to one metric from the U.S. Census Bureau.

This closes out a year filled with a contentious proxy contest, portfolio restructuring and major acquisitions, a new board, and a new strategic plan to right the ship.

The Fed said in a statement it is raising the key borrowing rate to a range of 2.25 percent to 2.50 percent — the highest level in a decade.