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A large cooling tower and other buildings at the nuclear power site in Salem County can be seen near a farm in Lower Alloways Creek Township, N.J., in rural Salem County Nov. 13, 2007.  (Mel Evans, AP, file)
Energy
Environment
NJ Spotlight

PSEG drives home vow to shutter nuclear plants unless public subsidizes them

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.

7 years ago

The state aims to collect more information on department finances to help with the budgeting process. Its first subject was the Department of Corrections. (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania
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Pa. lawmakers try out new way of assessing impact of state dollars

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

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Solar panels on the roof of the building supplying energy to the AirTrain at Newark Liberty International Airport soak up the rays. A New Jersey lawmaker wants the state to aim for 80 percent renewable energy use by 2050. (AP file photo)
Environment
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

Will its own success sabotage the garden state’s solar sector?

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.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania is working to roll out online gambling, which will be licensed through existing casinos. (Wayne Parry/AP)
Politics

Amid Pa. gambling expansion, questions arise about federal laws

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

7 years ago

Mayor Jim Kenney  (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Government Accountability
Philadelphia

Philadelphia to offer bill payment flexibility amid shutdown

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.

7 years ago

In a photo taken Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, Vince Farias looks through a container with keys to his rental properties in Surf City, N.J. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
New Jersey
Real Estate
Taxes

New rental tax worries some N.J. shore renters, homeowners

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

7 years ago

Marshal Granor of the Hebrew Free Loan Association writes a check for $1,250 to Latashah Sharp, a federal employee who has fallen behind on her rent since the government shutdown began. An employee of the Transportation Security Administration at Philadelphia airport, Sharp has continued working without pay. An anonymous $500,000 donation made the interest free loans to federal employees possible. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Government Accountability
Personal Finance
Philadelphia

Federal workers in Philly offered free, no-interest loans during shutdown

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

7 years ago

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 20, 2008, file photo, John Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group, talks during an interview with The Associated Press, in New York. Vanguard announced Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, that John C.
Radio Times
Personal Finance
Philadelphia

[BONUS] Remembering investment pioneer John Bogle

Guest: John Bogle J ...

Air Date: January 17, 2019

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In this photo March 22, 2013, file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo, File)
Government Accountability
Personal Finance
Taxes

Furloughed IRS workers must return to work ahead of tax season

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

7 years ago

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In this Tuesday, May 20, 2008, file photo, John Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group, talks during an interview with The Associated Press in New York. Bogle has died at 89. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Business

John Bogle, Vanguard founder, dies at 89

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.

7 years ago

Brian Kolfage raised millions of dollars for construction of a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)
NPR
Immigration

More than $20 million crowdsourced for border wall will be refunded

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.

7 years ago

Federal Reserve Board Gov. Lael Brainard says a growing body of research suggests that diversity leads to better decision-making. (Cliff Owen/AP)
NPR
Business
Gender

The push to break up the boys’ club at the Fed

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.

7 years ago

Former Camden Mayor Dana Redd, left, listens during a meeting of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority Thursday, July 10, 2014, in Trenton, N.J., where a vote was taken on a $260 million tax break was approved for Holtec International. (Mel Evans/AP)
Business
Taxes

N.J. tax-break programs poorly monitored, audit finds

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

7 years ago

A SEPTA bus travels west on Walnut Street.
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Transportation
PlanPhilly

SEPTA facing $63M capital budget shortfall over motorists' lawsuit

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.

7 years ago

Protesters with NYC Fight for $15 gather in front of a McDonalds to rally against fast food executive Andrew Puzder, who was President Trump's nominee to lead the Labor Department on February 13, 2017 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NPR
Business

Minimum wages rising in 20 states and several cities

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.

7 years ago

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