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A key legislative committee approved a bill that would raise New Jersey’s minimum wage to $10 later this year and put the state on a path to having the wage reach $15 by 2024.

A New Jersey-based company is defending plans to build a multibillion-dollar facility in the New Mexico desert to store spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.

Pennsylvania's Agriculture Department is opening up its hemp program, pending approval from the federal government.

The company maintains new filings with state demonstrate the case for up to $300 million in annual aid for three years, but most financial information has been redacted.

Pennsylvania's Independent Fiscal Office is now required to periodically create what are known as performance-based budget reports on state agencies.

Add up solar installations — deployed and in the pipeline — and New Jersey has reached the point which current subsidies expire — before a new program has been put in place.

 Pennsylvania is in the middle of rolling out a slate of gambling expansions, including online gaming.

The mayor of Philadelphia says city departments and agencies will be offering flexibility in bill payments to federal workers affected by the partial government shutdown.

A new tax in New Jersey on short-term lodging such as Airbnb rentals is rattling some property owners and renters.

An anonymous donor is distributing $500,000 in interest-free loans to unpaid government workers during the shutdown.

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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.